Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

I just want things to work properly.

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

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

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.