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" 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. "

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

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

" You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. "

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

" Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. "

" 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. "

" More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing. "

" I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way. "

" As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. "

" 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. "

" 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 people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic. "

" I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. "

" 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. "

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

" When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "