Most Of The Time You Will Fail,

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.

If You're Going To Fail, You Might As Well Fail At The Big Ones.

I Think An Education Is Not Only Important, It Is The Most Important Thing You Can Do With Your Life.

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

People Take The Longest Possible Paths, Digress To Numerous Dead Ends, And Make All Kinds Of Mistakes. Then Historians Come Along And Write Summaries Of This Messy, Nonlinear Process And Make It Appear Like A Simple, Straight Line.