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

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

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

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

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

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

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.

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.‘

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

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?

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.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I love good, loud speakers.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

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.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.

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.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

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

I’m not no Internet person.

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 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.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

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

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

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.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

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

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.