"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."

"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."

"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."

"In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked."

"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."