Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

Fear is always a good motivator.

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

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

I just think things should work properly.