Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

Don't listen to experts.

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.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

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

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.