Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

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.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.