I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I’m an iPod person.

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.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

I’m a geek.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

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.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.