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.

Example is leadership.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

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

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

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

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I was an overnight sensation.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.