An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.