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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

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.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.