It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Language is the dress of thought.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.