Trevor Baylis Quotes

#1. Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

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#2. Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

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#3. I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

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#4. The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

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#5. The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

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#6. 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.

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#7. As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,

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#8. A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

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#9. All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

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#10. That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

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#11. Do what gives you a buzz.

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#12. 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.

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