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British - Designer Born: May 2, 1947

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.

Together Ideas Engineering More

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

Lazy Testing Size Standardized

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

Nature Today Computers Us

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Drawing You Sitting Your

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

Time Wrong Things Nothing

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

Energy Know Nothing Goodness

Emerging markets are hugely important.

Important Markets Emerging Hugely

The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.

Best Talent World Research

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

Better Person Robots Than

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

Success Failure Enjoy You

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

Quality You Cost Compete

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Science Technology Ideas Design

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

You Free Pencil Something

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

Technology People Think Better

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.

Think Breakfast Nothing Run

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

Problems Engineer How Them

People buy products if they're better.

People Better Buy Products

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

Life Mountain Enjoy Problems

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Failure You Worry Something

Reality TV is anything but.

Reality Anything Reality TV TV

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

People Them Ingenious Companies

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

People You Treat Modern

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

You Want Against Different

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

Moment Great Next Myth

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

You Think Start Wrong

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.

Good People Money You

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