I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.