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

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.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

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

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

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

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.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

To innovate is not to reform.

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.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

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

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

The Internet is a big distraction.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

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

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

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.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

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