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

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.

I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

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

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.

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