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

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

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

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

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

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

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.