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