When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.

If I'd been born a ghoul, I think I would've killed people. I just happened to be born a human. That's the only reason why I'm allowed to live a moral life.

Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.

Custom does often reason overrule.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.