Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

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

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

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.

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

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

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.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

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

The last people with any ideas are young people.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

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

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

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

To make headway, improve your head.

Think off-center.

New roads; new ruts.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

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.

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

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.