24 Quotes by Laurene Powell Jobs

It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.

I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.

I came across this circumstance of undocumented students. These are kids who were brought to this country as youngsters, who are raised as Americans and go to American schools, and then when they graduate high school, they have no prospects in front of them because they are undocumented and illegally in the United States.

That's why our country is such a beautiful, beautiful experiment: We manifest, we allow freedom if you follow certain rules and if you work really hard. That's at the root of our cherished values.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

I've always had this idea that you have to make the most of things.

It's hard when people die, but there's something about when people die suddenly.