I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Do what gives you a buzz.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.

I'm a bit of a tease. I'd make out with a lot of people but not go beyond that.

Right.” Sadie looked dazed. “You’ve got a monkey butler. Why not?

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.