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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.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
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.
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you’ve got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
Britain’s great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we’re not using it.
My interest in film is sort of catholic – apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything.