The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
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.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
I hate science fiction.
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.
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
Anger is a good motivator.
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
Insurance companies don't make anything.
I'm not a businessman.
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
Beauty can come in strange forms.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
