I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
From Dean Kamen
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
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.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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