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

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

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.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

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