The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. Votes: 7
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me. Votes: 5
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. Votes: 5
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. Votes: 3
But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me. Votes: 2
All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy. Votes: 0
As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something, Votes: 0
Do what gives you a buzz. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. Votes: 0
That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz. Votes: 0
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong. Votes: 0