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

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

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.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

Beauty can come in strange forms.