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.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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

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

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.

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.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

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

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

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.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.