Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Nature hates calculators.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

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

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

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

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

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.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

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

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

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

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I often work by avoidance.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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.

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.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

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.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.