So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.