I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

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.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

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.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

You can stroke people with words.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

What you guys want, I’m for.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

War is what happens when language fails.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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.

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.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.