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.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
