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 it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

A letter does not blush.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

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.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

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.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

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.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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

Listen to many, speak to a few.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.