Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

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

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws