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.
Kamala HarrisFor the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
Christopher HitchensI just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.
Jackie ChanWhenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt DisneyIt is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon HillAt Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.
Bill GatesDrones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
Bill GatesIt’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
Joyce MeyerLove is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhat we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Jeff BezosPublishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
Paulo CoelhoThere is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.
Audrey HepburnAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaIf my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey HepburnThanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.
The WeekndThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne FrankGod wants to bless us where we are.
Joel OsteenI really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.
Kanye WestOld age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas CarlyleI’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.
Paul AusterI just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret ThatcherSee how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBut there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.
Jeff BezosSoldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.
Alexander the GreatIn this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. MenckenThe way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
Bill GatesEverybody 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.
Brian EnoI give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.
Muhammad AliEverything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.
Thich Nhat HanhThe pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
Elon MuskSometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve JobsI think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice WalkerYou know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.
Bill GatesI’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
Jeff BezosTaking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.
Richard BransonOur love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.
Michelle ObamaThe tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
Bill GatesThe man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry FordCorruption 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.
Joe BidenNext to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
Eckhart TolleI have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan QuayleWhen the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill GatesSpeak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
ConfuciusI thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. CummingsScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
DiogenesYou cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel JohnsonEnergy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
Bill GatesThe goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.
Elon MuskThose who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
Thich Nhat HanhThe purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert SchweitzerHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis BaconI have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
Benjamin FranklinI care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.
Elon MuskIf that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
Neil ArmstrongThe United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin PowellTake advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
Edmund HillaryThis is not a bad life.
Stephen King