Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

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.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

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

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

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

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

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.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.