Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

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

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.

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 truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

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.

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.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Nature hates calculators.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

I will never retire unless I have to.

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.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

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

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

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.

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

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

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.‘

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

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.

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

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

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

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?‘

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

The Internet is a big distraction.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

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.

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

I don’t write letters anymore.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

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.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.