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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.