Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.