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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed.

Trevor Baylis's Popular Quotes

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

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All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

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The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

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The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

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Do what gives you a buzz.

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I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again.…

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I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

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As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

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But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

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