«From the Magna Carta to the first Parliament to the industrial revolution to an empire that covered the world; most
of the great
inventions of modern times with Britain stamped on them: the telephone; the television; the computer;
penicillin; the hovercraft; radar...
«Looking at humanity's greatest
inventions over the last 100 or so years, like the transistor, or
penicillin, or Linux, all these have really helped us to move forward and none
of those were built by lawyers.»