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.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

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.

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

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

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.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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

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.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.