I think there will be PCs at every price point.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

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

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

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

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I’m not a futurist.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

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.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

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.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

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

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Computers double their performance every month.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

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

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

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.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

I’m a geek.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

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.

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

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.