More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.