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.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

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

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I take my sleep very, very important.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

In politics nothing is contemptible.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.