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.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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

I think the definition of a book is changing.

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.

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.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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.

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.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

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

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

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

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

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

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

I’m not a futurist.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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.

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

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

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.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

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

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Ebooks had to happen.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Computers double their performance every month.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

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

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.