The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.