Move fast with stable infrastructure.

I love good, loud speakers.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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

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 had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

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

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‚The Most Powerful Idea in the World.‘

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

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

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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.‘

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

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

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.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

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

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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.

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.