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.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.