When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

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.

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.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

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

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

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

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

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.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.