Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.