The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

If children have interest, then Education happens

Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

The rich aren't paying for luxury - they're paying for basic humanity.

Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

You don't win by wishing for your competitor or enemy to be weak and broke

Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.