Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.
I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.
Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.
I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.