Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

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.

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.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

If time is money, how much is a lifetime?

Don't eat 'til you're full

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

I'm a pretty basic surfer.

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.

When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.