All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

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.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Life is short, the art long.

In art the best is good enough.

Computers double their performance every month.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

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

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

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

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

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

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

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

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

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

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 believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

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

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

Connectivity is a human right.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

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.

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

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.