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.

Anger is a good motivator.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

Emerging markets are hugely important.