Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I’m not really book-smart.

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

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

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.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‚over the Internet.‘

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.