If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinkin….

Reality TV is anything but..

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches..

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as fina….

A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of runn….

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible..

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important..

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education..

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised..

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time..

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope..

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had..

There's nothing wrong with things taking time..

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and m….

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free..

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups..

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. I….

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effor….

I've fought court battles over my inventions before..

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be ….