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.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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

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

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

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

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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

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.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

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

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I don’t write letters anymore.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Science is magic that works.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

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

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

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.

People everywhere love Windows.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Science is nothing but perception.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.