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 started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Science is magic that works.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

I’m not no Internet person.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

People love conspiracy theories.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

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.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

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

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.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

We live in a bewildering world.

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

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.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

I live in a crazy time.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.