A thought is an idea in transit.
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.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
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.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
