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

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

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

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.

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

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?

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

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

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

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

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

I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to impossible to do.

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

When you see the world that God sees, you see a world that is loving, compassionate, and filled with individuals who live together in harmony and peace.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.