I hated being a public company CEO.

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.

When you discover the gift inside you, you have to submit yourself to the gift and improve it

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again, ” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist.

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.