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I'm a human entropy producer.
In a free society, you get what you celebrate.
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.
When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.
I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.
Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.
We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.
Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.
We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.
My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.
I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.
I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
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.