I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

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.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

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.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

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.

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

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

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

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can’t you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that’s different from a California textbook that’s different from a Massachusetts textbook. That’s very expensive.

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.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

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.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

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.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‚Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?‘

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.