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

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

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.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

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.

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

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

Ebooks had to happen.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I love good, loud speakers.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

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

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

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.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

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

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

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.

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?‘

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

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

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.