As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

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

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

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.

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.