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

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.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

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

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.

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

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.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

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.

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

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

I need to learn to stay away from those who want to steal my heart and replace it with steel.

Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get, " she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get.

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Cats learned how to fly that evening.

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.