I’m not a futurist.

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

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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

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

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

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 biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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.

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.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

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.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

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

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

Young people can create beautiful things.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

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

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

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

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

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.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

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

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

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 killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

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