Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The key to innovation in economics is to question conventional wisdom.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

"The world is full of stories, but it is the ones we choose to tell that define us."

"Writing is like breathing for me. I have to do it to live."

If you say you want to automate cars and save people’s lives, the skills you need for that aren’t taught in any particular discipline. I know – I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.