I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.
The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.
It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.