As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

Computers make me totally blank out.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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.

Research is creating new knowledge.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

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.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

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.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Computers double their performance every month.

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

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

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.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.