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

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Ebooks had to happen.

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.

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

I’m a geek.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

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

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.

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

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.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

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

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

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.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Connectivity is a human right.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

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

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

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