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

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

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" 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. "

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" I'm a human entropy producer. "

" I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know. "

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" 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.' "

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" There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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