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.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

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

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

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

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