If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

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.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

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

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

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

Success is made of 99% failure.