Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

My weapon is literature

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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 real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.