Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

History is more or less bunk.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‚The Most Powerful Idea in the World.‘

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

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?‘

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

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.

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

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

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.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.