I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

The Internet is a big distraction.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

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.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

Science is magic that works.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.