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

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

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.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

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

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

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