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

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.

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.

If you don’t know your tendencies and can’t analyze when you are most effective, then how can you get the most done in the least amount of time with the best results?

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

Larry Fitzgerald is one of the hardest-working guys I've ever seen. We spent some time training in Minnesota last offseason, and to see what he does to get better, he has to be the best.

I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

My profession is called record production.