I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

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

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.

We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

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.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

I’m not a futurist.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

I’m an inventor.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

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.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

Imagination decides everything.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‚Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?‘

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

To innovate is not to reform.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

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.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.