We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

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

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‚The Most Powerful Idea in the World.‘

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

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 we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

Imagination decides everything.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.