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.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Revolutions go not backward.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

The right-wingers don’t want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

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.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

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

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

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?

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Change in all things is sweet.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Africa is on the rise.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‚Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?‘