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.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

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.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

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

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Everybody is entertained to death.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

I’m not a futurist.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

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

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

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

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.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Our nation must come together to unite.

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 don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

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

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

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.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

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

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.