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

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

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’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

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.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

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.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

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

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Nature hates calculators.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

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.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.