Everybody is entertained to death.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

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

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

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

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.

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

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

I make pop culture.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

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

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I’m a geek.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

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

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

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

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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

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