Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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

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’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

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?

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

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

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I don’t write letters anymore.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

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

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

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.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

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

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.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.