Inventions from the Shed

Success ... some people dream about it and others get up early in the morning and work hard at it.

– Inventor Ken Arnold

I found a lot of them were suspicious about how they would be treated. They were very sensitive of the possibility they might be sent up. That's because the media never gets inventors right. They either treat them as cranks or messiahs. Most are just sensible, level-headed people.

– Jim Hopkins on inventors, in The Sunday Star-Times, 4 July 1999, page 3