Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Every President wants to do right.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

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

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

Man is not free unless government is limited.