You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

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

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.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

[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.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.