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.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

I’m an inventor.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Computers double their performance every month.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

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

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

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

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.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I’m an iPod person.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

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.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

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.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

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

Adventures are to the adventurous.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.