Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
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.
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.