I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.

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

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

Reality TV is anything but.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

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