As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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 hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

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

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

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

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

People everywhere love Windows.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

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.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

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.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.