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"My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about."
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"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"

"Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset."

"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."
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"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."

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

"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought."

"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter."

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

"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."

"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."

"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."

"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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