New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

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).

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.

We are not here to question the possible, we are here to challenge the impossible

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.