When I Started Off, I

Enjoy Failure And Learn From It. You Never Learn From Success.

I Want Entrepreneurs To Be Engineers And Scientists And Designers; They Don't Necessarily Have To Be Internet Entrepreneurs Or Retail Entrepreneurs.

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.

Engineering Is Treated With Disdain, On The Whole. It's Considered To Be Rather Boring And Irrelevant, Yet Neither Of Those Is True.

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.