The microprocessor is a miracle.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

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

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

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.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

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

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?‘

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

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

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

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

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

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.

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.

Electronic books are junk.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

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.

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

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

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

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

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.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

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.

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

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

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

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.