I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

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

You can stroke people with words.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Service of any type requires preparation.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

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

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

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.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

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

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

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

A letter does not blush.

I write all my sermons.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

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

The way I talk is bizarre.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘