Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

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.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.