"Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports."

"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."

"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."

"Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us."

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."

"I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism."

"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."