I'm a human entropy producer.

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

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

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.

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

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.