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

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

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

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