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

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

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

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.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

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

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Truth is a pathless land.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

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.

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.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

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

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

Everybody is entertained to death.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

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 think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

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

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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.

Science is magic that works.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

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.

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