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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'd Rather Lose My Own Money Than Someone Else's.

What Really Makes It An Invention Is That Someone Decides Not To Change The Solution To A Known Problem, But To Change The Question.

I Don't Work On A Project Unless I Believe That It Will Dramatically Improve Life For A Bunch Of People.

We Are In A Race Between Knowledge And Catastrophe. If We Keep Track Of What Is Important, Never Lower Our Standards Or Forget Why We Are Here, We Have The Ability To Determine The Fate Of The World.