But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.