Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

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.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

Imagination decides everything.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Originality is really important.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

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

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‚Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?‘

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

The Internet is a big distraction.

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.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

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

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Computers make me totally blank out.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we’re the only ‚way of life‘ brand in the world. We’re one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it’s Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.