Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

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.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.