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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

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

If you can talk, you can write.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

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.

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.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Connectivity is a human right.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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.

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

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

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

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

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 American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

The Internet is a big distraction.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.