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

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

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

I'm a human entropy producer.