The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.