Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer..

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that a….

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want..

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything..

Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. The….

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it..

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs..

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth..

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology.

Emerging markets are hugely important..

Beauty can come in strange forms..

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long….

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate..

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them..

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true..

I just want things to work properly..

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time..

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward..

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products..

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke..

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them..