In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

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

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

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.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

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

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

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.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.