If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

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

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

I love good, loud speakers.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

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.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

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.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

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.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

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.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I think the definition of a book is changing.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

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.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

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.

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

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

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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.

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

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Computers make me totally blank out.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.