I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I just want things to work properly.

Anger is a good motivator.

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

The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology