to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy

I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people do not have to learn the vast number of formulae they used to learn. Instead, they have to learn to use the computer effectively. This frees them, I feel, to understand concepts and the foundations while they’re learning the mechanics of the application of the theory.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.