If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

I hate the idea of genres.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

My fat never made me less money.

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.

God has entrusted me with myself.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Young people can create beautiful things.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

To innovate is not to reform.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

One man with courage is a majority.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

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

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.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘