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

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

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

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

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.