I just think things should work properly.

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

[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.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

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.