You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

When you know better you do better.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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.