Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Electronic books are junk.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Nature abhors annihilation.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I like school and I like learning.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The proper study of mankind is books.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

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

I’ve worked with children all my life.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Libraries raised me.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.