Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

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.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.