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!

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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

Speak low, if you speak love.

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.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

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.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

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

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

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.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Money has a language of its own.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

A yawn is a silent shout.

The Internet is a big distraction.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

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

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Be not a slave of words.