- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a human entropy producer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exploring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.
- Definite
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
- Healthcare
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020