Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

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

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

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

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

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

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

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?‘

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

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

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

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.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.