What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Reality TV is anything but.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

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.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

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

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.