Education Quotes

The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey,... ...

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.