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.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

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

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

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.

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