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

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Ebooks had to happen.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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.

I’m much healthier now.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

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.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Change in all things is sweet.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I became a beach bum.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

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

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

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.

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.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Rap was my drug.