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.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, ‚I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.‘

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

My shows are not narratives.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

Going home helps the content.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

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.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.