A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Most of the people that doubt other people's dreams do so because they don't even believe in their own dreams.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

Does fuzzy logic tickle?