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.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

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.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

I write all of my own speeches.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Think off-center.

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.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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

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

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

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

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

In oratory the will must predominate.

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.

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.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.