Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.
I've been working on the new Miracle Mop for many years.
I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So whoever designed the wheel were onto a good thing.
Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on.
