In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‚Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.‘

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

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

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

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.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

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.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

What we live by we die by.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Life is a dead-end street.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

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

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

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.

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

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.