Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

Reality TV is anything but.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.