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.
Saul Griffith
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.
I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.
In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
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.
I think there's an infinite number of cool technology sports that should exist that don't.
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.
