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

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

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.

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.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

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

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

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

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

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 do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

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

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.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

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

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

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

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

Once you have a computer that can do a few things – strictly speaking, one that has a certain ‚sufficient set‘ of basic procedures – it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of ‚Universality‘.

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.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

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.

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.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

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