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.

• Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
• The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
• 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.
• Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
• If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
• I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
• 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.
• 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.
• New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.