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

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

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

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

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

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

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

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

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.

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

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

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.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

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

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.