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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm a human entropy producer. "

" 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. "