The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
Good students are good at all things.
This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'
Creativity thrives best when constrained.
Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.