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.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

When you know better you do better.

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

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

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.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.