If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

The future will be better tomorrow.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

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

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

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.

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

The future of American film lies on television.

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.

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

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

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

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

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

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

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

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

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

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.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

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

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 is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Ebooks had to happen.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!