The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

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.

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

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I don’t read books much.

The Internet is a big distraction.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

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

I grew up reading science fiction.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

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.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

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.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

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

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

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

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

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.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘