Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

Reality TV is anything but.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.