When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

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.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

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?

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‚I could have thought of that‘ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

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.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Computers double their performance every month.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.