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 one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

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.

Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.