People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

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

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

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.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Connectivity is a human right.

I like a drama.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

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.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you’re going to get. You know it’s going to be an all-day party.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

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

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.