It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

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

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

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.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

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.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.