Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.