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

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

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

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

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.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

Everybody is entertained to death.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

We will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

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

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.