In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

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

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Every artist was first an amateur.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

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

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Facts are stubborn things.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Africa will thrive.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.