Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.