Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

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.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

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

All men hate the nagging.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

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 the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

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.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

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.