Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

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

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.