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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.