There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

Don't listen to experts.

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

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

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

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