Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

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

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

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.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

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.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

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

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

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.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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

It’s not easy to define poetry.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

I am not a fan of books.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.