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

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

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.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

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

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

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.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

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

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

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?‘

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

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.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

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.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.