It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

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

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

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

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

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

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

To make headway, improve your head.

Computers double their performance every month.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

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

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Africa will thrive.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Great loves too must be endured.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

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.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

Connectivity is a human right.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.