Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.