Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

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

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

People everywhere love Windows.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Connectivity is a human right.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

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

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

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

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.