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

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.

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).

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

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

Your powers don't work in the rain do they? A little bit of water and your fire fizzles out? So Little Miss Perfect does have a weakness after all!

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.