As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

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

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.