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.

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

The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.

None of us is smarter than all of us.

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.