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

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.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

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.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

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

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

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.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

I’m confident with my ability.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Never complain. Never explain.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

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

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.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.