If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

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

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

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

Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.