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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a human entropy producer. "

" 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. "

" There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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