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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Industrialize or perish.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
