In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.