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

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

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.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

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

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

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.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

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.

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.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.

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

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

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.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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.

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

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

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.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I grew up reading science fiction.

Once you have a computer that can do a few things – strictly speaking, one that has a certain ‚sufficient set‘ of basic procedures – it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of ‚Universality‘.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

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

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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