There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

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

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

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.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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.

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

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

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

The only thing you ever have is now.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Peace begins with a smile.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

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.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.