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 ri…

- Saul Griffith

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 ye…

- Saul Griffith

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

- 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 s…

- Saul Griffith

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

- Saul Griffith

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.

- Saul Griffith

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

- Saul Griffith