Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Originality is really important.

The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

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.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Young people can create beautiful things.

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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

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?

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

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.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

If you judge, investigate.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

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.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.