Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

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