Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

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

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

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.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Ebooks had to happen.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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.

He that rises late must trot all day.

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

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I’m an iPod person.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.