Science is magic that works.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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‘.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

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.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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 someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

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

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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

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.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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

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

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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.