These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

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

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.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

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.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

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.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.