I know I'm not an ordinary year-old. I've had surgeries so that I can breathe, see, and hear without hearing aids, but it all makes me look unusual.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

用你所拥有的，在你所在的地方，做你能做的事。

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.