I'd Rather Lose My Own Money Than

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.

Invention And Entrepreneurship Isn't About Pure Technology. Most People Take Whatever They See In Front Of Them And Relate It To Something They Understand. For At Least Ten Years After Ford Started Building Cars, People Called Them Horseless Carriages. It Wasn't Obvious To Call It A Car. They Used To Call The Radio 'the Wireless.' Innovation Is Much More About Changing People And Their Perceptions And Their Attitudes And Their Willingness To Accept Change Than It Is About Physics And Engineering.

I Think Our Society Is No Longer Properly Valuing The Intangible Potential Of Innovation, Even If We Have To Be A Little Uncomfortable With The Risks Associated With It, And A Little Bit Willing To Fail, Pick Ourselves Up And Dust Ourselves Off And Try Again. We Don’t Seem To Want To Do That As Much As We Used Too.

In The Culture Of America, In A Free Culture, You Get What You Celebrate. And In This Culture, We Have Two Obsessions, Become A Group That Becomes A Group That Celebrates Sports Heroes And Entertainment Heroes. There's No Room Left For Kids To See Even A Little Bit Of The Opportunities To Really, Really Get Excited About Becoming An Inventor, An Engineer, Or A Scientist, A Problem Solver.

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