Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

You can’t do something forever.

Change alone is unchanging.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

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.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use – a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.