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

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

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.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, 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.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

We all have the duty to do good.

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.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

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.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

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.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

By that sin fell the angels.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

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.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

War is the business of barbarians.

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

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

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

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

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.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

The buck stops here!

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.