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

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

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

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

We live in ugly times.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

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

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

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

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

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.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

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.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.