One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Always do whatever’s next.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

I’m a geek.

I’m an iPod person.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Time is bunk.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

The Internet is a big distraction.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.