Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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.

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.

Electronic books are junk.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

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

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.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

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

I think the definition of a book is changing.

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

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

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.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

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

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

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

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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.

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

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.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.