It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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.

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

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

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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