A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

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.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion – a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long – that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

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.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

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 put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.