[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

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.

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

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

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

I'm a human entropy producer.