From Steve Jobs: "When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is, everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." ...

"Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."

From Apprentice to Genius: the making of a scientific dynasty: "science remains one of the few fields in which the traditional master-apprentice relationship still exists. Such relationships are often intense, with both members caught up in the fever of common work, the long hours, the triumph of a successful experiment or the frustration of one that fizzles. Through it, the student is trained in the ways of the mentor and comes away with an approach, a style, a test in the mouth or a feel in the gut for what makes good science. In this relationship, favors are granted, careers advanced, the sway of particular scientific disciplines extended."