Nature hates calculators.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

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.

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

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Man is by nature a political animal.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

Nature does nothing in vain.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

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

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

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

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there’s always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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.

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

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

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

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

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

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.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

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.

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.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.