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" If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it. "

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" I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know. "

" You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic. "

" Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. "

" Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects. "

" You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. "

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

" Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. "

" 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. "

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

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