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

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

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Success is made of 99% failure.