I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.