The microprocessor is a miracle.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

Nature hates calculators.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

To innovate is not to reform.

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.

Originality is really important.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

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.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

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

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Once you have a computer that can do a few things – strictly speaking, one that has a certain ‚sufficient set‘ of basic procedures – it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of ‚Universality‘.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

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.

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