“The next invention I make will be a consumer product. Something people go into the store and pick off the shelf and I don't have to do the sales-distribution side of it.”
“Workers like that are at their computers, they tell me, up to 12 and 14 hours a day, ... So the slow rotation setting on the Aura turns you at one degree every four minutes. At high speed, you move 120 degrees in 15 seconds.”
“Being an inventor, I chose the career side of my life instead of the personal side. I have a lot of resentment over that because I'm not married and don't have any children. That may be my next project. But if I had a family, I probably wouldn't have taken the risk to develop the Aura.”
“Once people see it at trade shows, ... you know what they say? -- 'Oh, it's real.' They'll see it in journals, but don't even believe it's out there until they can sit in it for themselves.”
“The Indonesian government's revenues increase commensurately with Freeport's. It already increases when metals prices increase and our production increases.”