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

- Trevor Baylis

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

- Trevor Baylis

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.…

- Trevor Baylis

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

- Trevor Baylis

Do what gives you a buzz.

- Trevor Baylis

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

- Trevor Baylis

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

- Trevor Baylis

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

- Trevor Baylis

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.

- Trevor Baylis