Trevor Baylis
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.Collection: Success
As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.Collection: Average
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.Collection: Magic
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.Collection: Successful
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.Collection: Oddities
All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.Collection: Crazy
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.Collection: Ideas
That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.Collection: Inspiration
Do what gives you a buzz.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Inspiration
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.Collection: Ideas
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.Collection: Glasses