My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.