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    All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

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    A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.

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    An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

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

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

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    Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

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    As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

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    As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

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    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.

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    Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

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    Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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    Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

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    China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

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

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    Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

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    Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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    Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

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    Emerging markets are hugely important.

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    Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

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    Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

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

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

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    Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

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    Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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    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.

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    Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

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    Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

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    Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

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    Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

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    Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

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    If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

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    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.

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    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.

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    If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

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    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.

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

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    I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

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    I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

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    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.

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    [In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

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    In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

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    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.

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    I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

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    I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

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    It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

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    I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.

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    I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

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    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.

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

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    [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.