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.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

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

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.

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

I'm a human entropy producer.

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'