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.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

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’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.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

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

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

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

I’m not no Internet person.

Electronic books are junk.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

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

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

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Ebooks had to happen.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

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

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

I’m not a futurist.

People everywhere love Windows.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

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.

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.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

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!

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

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

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

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

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

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.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.