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

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 don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

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.

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

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

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.