Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

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

[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.'

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.