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.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Investigate, educate and organize.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.