Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The little man is still a man.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

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.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.