Anger is a good motivator.

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.

I don't design down to a price.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

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

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

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

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

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.