It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

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

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

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.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

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.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

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.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

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.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.