Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Energy begets energy.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Libraries raised me.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

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.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

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

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.