As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

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

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.

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

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

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.