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.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

I love good, loud speakers.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

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.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

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

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

The march of the human mind is slow.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

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

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

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

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

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.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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.

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.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.