I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

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

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

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

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.