If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

You could say science also is an art.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.