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

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

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

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

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

I'm a human entropy producer.