In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

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

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

I'm not a businessman.

Insurance companies don't make anything.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

Anger is a good motivator.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

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 hate science fiction.

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

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

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.