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

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

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.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

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

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

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.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Electronic books are junk.

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

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.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Research is creating new knowledge.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

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.

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.

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

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Imagination decides everything.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

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

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.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

People everywhere love Windows.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

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

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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

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

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.