Men have become the tools of their tools.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

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.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

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

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Men want to make women happy.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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

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.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

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

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

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.

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.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

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.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

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

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

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

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.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.