I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.