I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Electronic books are junk.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

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.

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

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

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

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

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.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

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.