If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

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

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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

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.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.