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Definition destroys... there�s nothing definite in this world.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew how to cut stone at the quarry. Edwin Land at Polaroid once said, 'I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science,' and I've never forgotten that.
Quoted in 'Steve's Two Jobs,' Time (Michael Krantz; October 18, 1999)
I'm not an educator... I'm a learner.
The Road Ahead (cowritten with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter N. Rinearson; 1995)
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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