“My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.”
Mom
“There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.”
EducationAll Quotes by will.i.am
“My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.”
Mom“If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.”
Mom“Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.”
Society“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
Dad“If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.”
Wisdom“We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.”
War“I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.”
Hope“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.”
Science“I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'”
Mom“We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.”
Technology“If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.”
Family“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”
Mom“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.”
Success“Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.”
Technology“You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”
Business“There's an entry point to any relationship.”
Relationship“You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.”
Future“As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.”
Education“Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.”
Alone