Our job is to take the technical excuse off the table, so people can no longer say it can't be done.

The Grand Challenge has been conquered.

It's time to see what has transpired over the last year and a half.

In 2004, we thought it was quite an achievement that a robot was able to go about seven and a half miles. But the results of this (year's semifinals) tell me that we will leave that in the dust of the Mojave.

Thoughts come through people, not from them.

The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset.