Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Education is the best provision for old age.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

You know you’re not anonymous on our site. We’re greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I like school and I like learning.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Touring is hard on the body.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.