Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
Britain’s great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we’re not using it.
Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology.
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
I just think things should work properly.
If robots are to clean our homes, they’ll have to do it better than a person.
I’ve fought court battles over my inventions before.
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don’t need great big vacuums anymore.
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It’s considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.
If you can’t be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.