My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

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.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Success is made of 99% failure.

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

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.