The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

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 a geek.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

The Internet is a big distraction.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

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

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.

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

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 hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

I’m not a futurist.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

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.

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

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

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.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

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.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

Connectivity is a human right.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

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

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

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.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

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

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

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

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.