Occupation: Inventor Birth: May 2, 1947
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long….
Beauty can come in strange forms..
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..
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want..
If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers..
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it..
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes..
I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never o….
All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers..
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..
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that a….
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs..
Anger is a good motivator..
Emerging markets are hugely important..
Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing..
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore..
If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinkin….
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate..
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything..
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth..