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

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

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

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

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

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

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

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

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.

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

I'm not a religious person at all.

Film is a team thing. There is no auteur.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Life with another person is always difficult.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.