Science is magic that works.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

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

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

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.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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

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.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

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

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

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

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.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

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

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.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

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.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

I’m not a futurist.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

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.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.