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.

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.

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

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

People fear not because they are powerless, but because they ignore their inner power

Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.