Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

I just think things should work properly.

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

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

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