I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

What is past is prologue.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

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.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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 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.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

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.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

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

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.