Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.

There are no rights and wrongs. Just lessons, lessons and more lessons. With hopefully a little fun in-between.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Colin Kaepernick has the tools to be one of the greatest of all time

It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows you.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.