Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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

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

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Leadership is influence.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

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.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

To me, we’re marketing hope.

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.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.