Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.

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

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

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

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.

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.