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

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.

I hated being a public company CEO.

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.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

You will survive in any situation with hope.

I am the sword in the darkness.

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.