I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.