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

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

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

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

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

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.

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.