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

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

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 and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

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

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

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

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.