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

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

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.

[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.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.