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.

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?

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

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).

I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Shut up and say something.

Listen . Keep silent . You are not gods mouthpiece. Try to be an ear.