We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Nature hates calculators.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Originality is really important.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

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.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.