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I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

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.

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.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

I'm a human entropy producer.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

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?

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.