In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone

Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense

For a moment, blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. "I would rather hate you for who I am than love me for who I am not

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.