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

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

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

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.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

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.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

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.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

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.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

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

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

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

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

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.

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.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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

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

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.