People everywhere love Windows.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

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

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

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.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

Ebooks had to happen.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

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.

Computers make me totally blank out.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

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?‘

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

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

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

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

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

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

I invented the cordless extension cord.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

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

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

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

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

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

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