We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

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

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

Once you have a computer that can do a few things – strictly speaking, one that has a certain ‚sufficient set‘ of basic procedures – it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of ‚Universality‘.

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

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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

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

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

I’m not no Internet person.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

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

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

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

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

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

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

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.

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.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Originality is really important.

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.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

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

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.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

The Internet is a big distraction.

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.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.