There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

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.

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

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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?

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

The object of the superior man is truth.

I love good, loud speakers.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

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

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Imagination decides everything.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

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.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

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.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Morality is contraband in war.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

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 do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.