Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.