"Reed College at that time offered perhaps..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
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“A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.”
“Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.”
“A great teacher makes hard things easy.”
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“We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.”
“The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.”
“The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.”