Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

I don't know why they call them Cheerios, I ate an entire box and didn't feel any happier!!

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.