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

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

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

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.

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'