It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

To make headway, improve your head.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

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.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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.

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.

A jug fills drop by drop.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Great loves too must be endured.

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

I love good, loud speakers.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Nature hates calculators.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

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.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

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.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

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

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.