Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

Success is made of 99% failure.

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