Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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 you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Industrialize or perish.

I cannot live without books.

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

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Know what you are talking about.