I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.