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If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.
I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.
I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.
China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.
Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.