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

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

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

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

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?‘

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‚The Most Powerful Idea in the World.‘

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

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

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

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.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

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

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

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

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

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

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.