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

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.

Nothing should become a stumbling block in your relationship with the people who surround you

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

If it gets any hotter in here I could use a big fan.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Where does it say that we must allow anyone who wants to come to America to come in and become a citizen. I mean, this is a very, very tough thing to discuss.

Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.