I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

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

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

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

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

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.