Micro Men (2009 TV Movie)

Alexander Armstrong: Clive Sinclair

Quotes 

• Clive Sinclair : Games! Games! Everywhere I go, games! This is what my lifetime of achievement has been reduced to! Clive Sinclair, the man who brought you Jet Set fucking Willy! Apparently there's even a game now about me trying to get a knighthood, for Christ's sake!

• Clive Sinclair : Yes, well some of us didn't go to university, did we, Chris. We prefer the cut-and-thrust of the real world.

• Clive Sinclair : Can't they see we exist to push barriers? We won't be constrained like this. What's that line from Browning...? 'A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?'

• Clive Sinclair : As inventors, we're obliged to dream.

• Clive Sinclair : Practicality, simplicity and elegance are the pillars of my vision.

• Clive Sinclair : Perhaps we should remind ourselves of the secret of the Sinclair success. That is, being first to market. Letting people know what they want, before even they know about it.

• Clive Sinclair : But is the personal computer not a desirable notion? Something every citizen would quietly crave if he actually knew what it was?

• Clive Sinclair : I want the Spectrum brought forward.

• Clive Sinclair : I've been... given a knighthood!

• Clive Sinclair : But we adapt, Chris. We move on. Businesses come, businesses go. This was but one step on a greater journey. And you know - ultimately - The path of the future will always be laid by the amateur. The quiet chap - scuttling off to his shed to work on that idea that he and he alone knows will change the world.