I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Think off-center.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

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

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.