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

Anger is a good motivator.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I don't design down to a price.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.