I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the….

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently..

Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information ab….

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton..

If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen..

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve don….

Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work..

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas..

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box..

Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of a woodpecker looks like, ….

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius..

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others..

Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's ph….

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the w….

The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art and science, because Leona….

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and w….

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are..

We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he could know ab….

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying..

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism..