If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

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

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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.

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.