The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.