You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.
Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.
