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!

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

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

A letter does not blush.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

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

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Connectivity is a human right.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

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.

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.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

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

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.