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

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

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

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws

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

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