There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

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.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Computers double their performance every month.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

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.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

From what I’ve heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I can express myself.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

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

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

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

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.