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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

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.

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.