Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

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

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Nature hates calculators.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

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 call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

People everywhere love Windows.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

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

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Connectivity is a human right.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

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

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

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.