The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

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

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

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 think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

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.

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.

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.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

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

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

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