Technology

The power of America's military not only rests on our technology, our weaponry, our hardware. It rests on the character and the resolve of our people.

It's very conventional for every generation to underestimate the potential of the following one. It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise for the next.

Technology doesn't change who we are — it magnifies who we are, the good and the bad.

If you've built a chaos factory, you can't dodge responsibility for the chaos.

We lose the freedom to be human.

If you want to take credit, first learn to take responsibility.

In a world without digital privacy, even if you have done nothing wrong other than think differently, you begin to censor yourself. Not entirely at first. Just a little, bit by bit. To risk less, to hope less, to imagine less, to dare less, to create less, to try less, to talk less, to think less.

Am I doing something because it is right, or simply because it is possible?

To graduate at this moment, in this time of prosperity and technological revolution, is an extraordinary gift. But it does come with strings attached.

Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness.

Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.

A change in the world that seems so clear you're sure someone else will do it. But they won't. You will.