Beauty can come in strange forms.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

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

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.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology