Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

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

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

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

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

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

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.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

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

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

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.

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?

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

The little man is still a man.

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

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

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

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

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

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

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.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

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.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

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?‘

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

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 sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!