These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

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.

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.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

People everywhere love Windows.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Children are all foreigners.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

It takes three to make a child.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

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

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

My next baby will be my new record.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.