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

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

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

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

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

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

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