I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
Fear is always a good motivator.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
Reality TV is anything but.
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
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.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
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.
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
