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

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 would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

Grace is a sacred strength.

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."-Uncle Charles

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

Never joined the wrong boat. When the destination is right, and the direction is wronged, everything goes wrongly!

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.