A teacher should have a creative mind.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I like school and I like learning.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Science is magic that works.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.