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

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" Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. "

" New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. "

" 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. "

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

" I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care. "

" As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "