The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

The highest result of education is tolerance.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.