[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

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.

I just want things to work properly.

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.

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

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.