As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

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

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

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.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

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

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.