To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

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

I cannot live without books.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.