Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Every wall is a door.

Well begun is half done.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.