It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

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

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

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.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

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

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

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

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, ‚Wow, these networks have a lot of information.‘

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Science is magic that works.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.