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.

I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

Success is made of 99% failure.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.