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" 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. "

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" Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up. "

" Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free. "

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

" Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing. "

" I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way. "

" I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again. "

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

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

" Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up. "

" The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future. "

" As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. "

" People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line. "

" In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. "

" Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it. "

" Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. "

" We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have. "

" I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system. "

" We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input. "

" Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding. "

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

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

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

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

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

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