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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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" Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly. "

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

" We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate. "

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" I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level. "

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" There's nothing wrong with things taking time. "

" Fear is always a good motivator. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We should have A-levels in vocational subjects. "

" Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. "

" When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality. "

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

" The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. "

" The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free. "

" People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them. "

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

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

" Anger is a good motivator. "