I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

I write all my sermons.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

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

All men hate the nagging.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

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.

Change in all things is sweet.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Be not a slave of words.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

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.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

I write all of my own speeches.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.