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 weapon is literature

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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

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.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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

Know what you are talking about.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Dare to think for yourself.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.