I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

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

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

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

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Think off-center.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’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.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

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.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

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

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

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

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

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.

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

I’m not a futurist.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

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

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

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

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

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.

Originality is really important.