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

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

Electronic books are junk.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

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

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

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.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

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.

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

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

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.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

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.

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 think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

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.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

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

Everybody is entertained to death.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

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

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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.