The new opportunity is to think all day, patent a bunch of quasi-innovative ideas, and then wait a few years. If any of your ideas were ever any good, a real entrepreneur will eventually build working versions, all you have to do is sue the entrepreneur.

I haven't seen a lot of what I would consider real successes yet [with municipal wireless]. I'm watching the hype. More and more cities are announcing they're going to do it, and I get concerned because I'm hearing more and more rhetoric that isn't consistent with the underlying technology.

No one likes sending a check to San Diego (Qualcomm's headquarters).

The more that his ideas see the light of day, the better off we are, given the opportunity to examine them, ... Because I think most people, frankly, would reject them.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

(Greene) wants the best ideas that are going to give opportunity to black businesses and economic incentives — both in training and in things that they can do so incubator businesses can grow.