You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that is not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.- Dean Kamen
We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we are all doomed.
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
My biggest worry is I am running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we are so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
If you are going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
