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I decided I could develop a toy and get some revenue from that and then use that revenue to really become an inventor and work on some of the more challenging projects I had in mind.
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I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun.
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That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.
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As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.
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I don't think there's any project that I started that I ever stopped working on.
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I can remember times when we'd be having parties, and people would be dancing and everything and I would be sitting there in the middle doing calculus, just doing my little thing.
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Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.
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Especially when you have a lot of technology you're developing as a small company, trying to protect that technology is a real problem.
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More and more, other countries are able to manufacture things cheaper, beating us in the marketplace in a lot of ways. So we need to do whatever we can to make sure America's ability to protect its ingenuity is as strong as it can be.
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I think America's strength is in innovation.
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You sometimes have a very innovative company, and if they come up with one idea, they can come up with many more - if they're successful. If they can't feed themselves, you lose that creativity.
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I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, the JTEC.
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Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We have to decide where to place our bets. We can't just cover everything we do.
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It was because of the success of the Super Soaker, I was able to at least get an audience with people to present some of my other ideas.
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