I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.