I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

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

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

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

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.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.