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.

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

The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

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.

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions