Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

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

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.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

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.

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.