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.

I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

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.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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.

Ebooks had to happen.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.

Disagreement is something normal.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

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.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

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

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Speak low, if you speak love.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

At first, I didn’t really use anything in the social network world. I was so anti-social network, which is kind of ironic. I actually first started on a chat room on my fan site.

Nature hates calculators.

Words are loaded pistols.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

In general, we’re a social network. I prefer that because I think it is focused on the people part of it – as opposed to some people call it social media, which I think focuses more on the content.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

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

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

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.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

Electronic books are junk.

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

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

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.

I don’t write letters anymore.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.