The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Never find fault with the absent.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

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

The Internet is a big distraction.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.