I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

I love good, loud speakers.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

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.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I became a beach bum.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

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.

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.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

My shows are not narratives.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

I’m not a futurist.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

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

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.