Move fast with stable infrastructure.

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.

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.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

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

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Ebooks had to happen.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

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 actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

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.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

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.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

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

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.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

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.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

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.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

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

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

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

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

Everybody is entertained to death.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

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!

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.