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.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Many admire, few know.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

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

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

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

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I love good, loud speakers.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.