The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. I sit in an airplane on the way back from a speaking engagement. I'm trying to sort out an odd transaction. I talked about inventiveness. I said that strange stories follow inventive people around, because invention itself parts company with normality.
Invention is revolution.
Invention is a trip into an uncharted land. Invention is eccentricity. It can be no other. It was an ingenuous question, but one I couldn't take lightly. It was one of those questions that someone asks when he isn't looking for information.