Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

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

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

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).

Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after

Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives.

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.