I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

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.

If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.

Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

If you want to be interesting, be interested.

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

I am a fantastic cook. It's my great passion.

I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.

I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.

Sincerity? I can fake that.