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.

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

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

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