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

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

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

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

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.

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.