If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.