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

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

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

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

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

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

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.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Everybody is entertained to death.

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

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there’s always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

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

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.

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

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.