“Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.”
“There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.”
“The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.”
“The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.”
“education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.”
“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything that leaves an imprint on the modern mind.""Like instructions for programming a VCR.”