I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

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Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

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My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

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Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

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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.

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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

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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.

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