After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology.

Emerging markets are hugely important..

Beauty can come in strange forms..

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long….

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate..

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..

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..

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward..

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products..

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke..

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them..

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person..

The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from unchart….

Don't listen to experts..

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands an….

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years….

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers..

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….

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..