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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
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"An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action."

"Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense told them was impossible."

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."

"Innovation lies in a creative mind."

"Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation."

"The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all."

"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."

"Start the conversion process and birth your products."

"The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own."

"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."
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"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."

"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."

"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."

"You want to be extra careful when making big decisions, but once you make a decision, stick with it."

"The fundamental good of society is not the state, it's not the politicians, it's the people."

"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
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