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" I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system. "

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" If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. "

" I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy. "

" The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future. "

" Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up. "

" 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. "

" Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. "

" My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.' "

" People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line. "

" Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional. "

" Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives. "

" Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications. "

" If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. "

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

" I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. "

" I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. "

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

" To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. "

" Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding. "

" I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's. "

" We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input. "

" Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free. "

" Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. "

" We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have. "

" I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling. "

" Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing. "

" We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. "

" Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects. "

" Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. "

" Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up. "

" My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time. "