Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

Reality TV is anything but.

[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.

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