I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

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

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

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

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.

I'm a human entropy producer.