I pay attention to politics and technology.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

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.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.