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

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

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

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

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.

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