growth Quotes

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

Computers double their performance every month.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'