For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.