Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

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

Emerging markets are hugely important.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

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.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.