Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.