The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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 man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
