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.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

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

I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

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

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

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.