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

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

I'm a human entropy producer.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

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.

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.