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’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

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

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

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

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

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

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Young people can create beautiful things.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

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 think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

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 release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

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.

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

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?

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Originality is really important.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

The Internet is a big distraction.

People everywhere love Windows.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.