Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

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.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

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

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Life is what you make of it.You have to decide what you want in life.

But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.