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" If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care. "

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

" I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a human entropy producer. "

" I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. "

" The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. "

" We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time. "

" 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. "

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

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" New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "