Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

There’s no formula.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

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

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

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.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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

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.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I have the space and liberty to create.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

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.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‚The Most Powerful Idea in the World.‘

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

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.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

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.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

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

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.