Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

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

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.