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.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

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.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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?‘

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

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.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

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.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

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.

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

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.