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

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

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.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

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‘.

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

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

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.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

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

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

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

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

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

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.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‚over the Internet.‘

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.

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.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

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.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

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

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

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

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

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

I love good, loud speakers.

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

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.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

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.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

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.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

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.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.