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!

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

I’m an iPod person.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Electronic books are junk.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

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

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

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