The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

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.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.