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

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.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.