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

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.

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.

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.

Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.