Emerging markets are hugely important.

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

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

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

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

Anger is a good motivator.