Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

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.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

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.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

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

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Money ain’t everything.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Money often costs too much.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

Africa is on the rise.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I love big business!

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.