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.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Science is magic that works.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

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

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

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!

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

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.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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

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

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

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

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

Connectivity is a human right.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

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

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

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

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.

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

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

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.

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.‘