Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

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

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.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.