I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

You can’t trust very many people.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

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

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.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

My life has been very full.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Life is short, the art long.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

My life is my argument.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.