The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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.

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

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

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

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Computers double their performance every month.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Nature hates calculators.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

New roads; new ruts.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

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.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

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

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

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

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

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

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

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

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.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

No great thing is created suddenly.