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

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

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.

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.

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

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.