[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

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

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.