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?

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.

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).

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

The life of truth is cold.

Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience.

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

The smell of cars' smokeas I wade through trafficovershadows the freshfragrance of Mother Earthdrenched in rain. There canbe no greater testimony to man's progress

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.