The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

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.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

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!

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I’m an iPod person.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

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.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

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.

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

To innovate is not to reform.

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.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

Young people can create beautiful things.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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.

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

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

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.