As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

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.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

At 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.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

It’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.

Love 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.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

Are 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?

If 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.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

I’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.

I 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.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

But 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.

Soldiers, 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.

In 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.

The 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.

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.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

Everything 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.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

You 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.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Taking 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.

Our 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.

The 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.

The 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.

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.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

I 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.

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

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I 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.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I 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.

You 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.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

The 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.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Fear 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.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I 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.

I 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.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

This is not a bad life.