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

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

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

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.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

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