will.i.am

will.i.am

30 quotes

An American rapper active since the 1970s, will.i.am has long been a source of memorable observations. With equal ease, will.i.am moved between Mom and Technology, finding connections others missed. Our collection holds 36 quotes from will.i.am, each offering a different angle on Mom, Technology, Politics, Future, and Family. Start here and see if you agree: "It should be mandatory that you understand computer science."

“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”

— will.i.am

Family

All Quotes by will.i.am

“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”

— will.i.am

Family

“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.”

— will.i.am

Technology

“Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.”

— will.i.am

Society

“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.”

— will.i.am

Education

“If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?”

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Technology

“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.”

— will.i.am

Dad

“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.”

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Business

“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.”

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Wisdom

“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.”

— will.i.am

Hope

“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.”

— will.i.am

Family

“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.”

— will.i.am

War

“There's an entry point to any relationship.”

— will.i.am

Relationship

“If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.”

— will.i.am

Mom

“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.”

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Success

“Romantic love is painful.”

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Romantic

“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.”

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Technology

“I don't like politics.”

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Politics

“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.”

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Alone

“If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.”

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Future

“You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.”

— will.i.am

Technology