[Quoting Abraham Lincoln, who said the patent system] adds fuel interest to the fire of genius, ... the patent system must appropriately reward innovation and risk. |
Fifty percent of the world's population now lives in cities, those are the people who need this, ... We still get around cities the way the Greeks did 5,000 years ago; they put on sandals, we put on sneakers. |
I don't know what innovation is, but I can give a guide to rude realities and somewhat serious suggestions about innovation and how to approach it. |
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy. |
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. |
Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things. |
It's got motors that do what your muscles do for you. It's got those tires that do what your feet do for you. |
It's up to you to work with them to make it interesting for them to want to pursue engineering. You need to instill the passion for tools and science, as much as they now have for nonsense. |
One of my biggest fears before we went public was, people would think of this as a toy, ... We think it's much more than that. |
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. |
The goal is to create in the culture passion among kids to do something. I think the trouble is our culture does create a passion for kids, but their passion is related to one of two industries: entertainment or sports. |
This is the world's first self-balancing human transporter, |
We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up. |
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. |