The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

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.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

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.

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

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

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.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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.

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

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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

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

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

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.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

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

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

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

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.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

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.

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

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Computers double their performance every month.

I’m a geek.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

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

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.