We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I like to let things breathe.

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

My life is mine to remember.

I don’t try to control my days.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

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.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

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 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.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

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.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

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

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven’t had the right kind of love in their lives.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Smiles are the language of love.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

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.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.