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

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

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.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

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.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

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

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

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