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.‘

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

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.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

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.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

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

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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

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

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‚Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?‘

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.