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

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

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

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

Success is made of 99% failure.

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