Saul Griffith Quotes

Australia, Inventor
1974

Saul Griffith (born 1974) is an Australian American inventor. He is the founder or co-founder of seven companies, including Otherlab (where he is currently CEO), Makani Power, and Instructables.

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.

Saul Griffith
- Energy
- Feet
- Currents
In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Saul Griffith
- Long
- Mean
- Design

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
- People
- Design
- Principal
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
- World
- Energy
- Water
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.

Saul Griffith
- Design
- Might
- Bragging
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

Saul Griffith
- Things
- Design
- Tools
We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

Saul Griffith
- Energy
- Understanding