I am a part of everything that I have read.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.