Nature hates calculators.

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

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.‘

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

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.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

For greed all nature is too little.

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.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

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.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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

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.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

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!

Connectivity is a human right.

Gardening is not a rational act.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I’m a geek.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!