The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Electronic books are junk.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

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.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

The Internet is a big distraction.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‚The Most Powerful Idea in the World.‘

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

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

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there’s always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

You should never give up your inner self.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

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

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.