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.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

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

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

I just want things to work properly.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.