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.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

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.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

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

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

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

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

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

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

I’m not no Internet person.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

The future is purchased by the present.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

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.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

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.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

To innovate is not to reform.

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

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

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

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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

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

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

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

The future of advertising is the Internet.

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