For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The knowledge of all things is possible
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.