It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

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.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

Ebooks had to happen.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Nature hates calculators.

Connectivity is a human right.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

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

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

I’m not no Internet person.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can’t type. They can’t create documents.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

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.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

I’m a geek.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.