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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
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Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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I don't design down to a price.
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When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
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I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.
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I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
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Fear is always a good motivator.
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I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.
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Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
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I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
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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.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.