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

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

Emerging markets are hugely important.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

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.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.