E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

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.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

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.

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

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

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.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

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

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

Ebooks had to happen.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

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.

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

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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 was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

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

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

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