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.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there’s always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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 music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

I love good, loud speakers.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

I’m not no Internet person.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

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.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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

I’m an iPod person.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.