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.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

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.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

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.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

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

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

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.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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 tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

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.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

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

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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.