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

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.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

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

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

In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care