Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

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

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.

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.

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.

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