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.

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.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.