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

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.

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.

Morning has animated something in me, too, some dormant thing that for years has known only how to sit and wait. Get a move on, it says. Don't let the day get away.

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

My teammates are the ultimate motivation. They mean everything to me. They are the reason I want to be at my best.

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

I hate watching myself. It's terrible. It's horrifying.