Design Quotes by 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…

— Saul Griffith

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

— 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

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

— Saul Griffith

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month…

— 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…

— Saul Griffith

I think there's an infinite number of cool technology sports that should exist that don't.

— Saul Griffith

I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.

— 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…

— Saul Griffith

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

— Saul Griffith