In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

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.

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.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.