If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

Your past always leads to who you are.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon.