After we were pretty much convinced we had a good design, and we'd have to make all the standard engineering trade-offs you always make -- you can always get three out of four of anything you want; the weight, the size, the cost, the functionality -- I put a bunch of guys in my plane and I said, "We're flying down to Walter Reed, and we're going talk to these kids, because frankly it doesn't matter whether we like this arm.
Nakon što smo bili prilično uvjereni da imamo dobar dizajn, i da ćemo morati učiniti sve standardne inženjerske kompromise koje uvijek činite -- uvijek možete dobiti tri od četiri onoga što želite: težinu, veličinu, trošak, funkcionalnost -- Ukrcao sam skupinu ljudi na moj avion i rekao, "Letimo u vojnu bolnicu Walter Reed razgovarati s tim mladićima, jer zapravo nije važno sviđa li se nama ova ruka,