Really Great Products, Like @nest, Have #design

Research Universities Need Excellent Means To Communicate And Express Their Results To Regular People.

Teaching Is The Rare Profession Where The Customer Isn't Always Right And Needs To Be Told So Appropriately.

I Don't Like Creating Software Anymore. It's Too Exact. It's Like Karate; There's No Room For Error.

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.

There Is A Construct In Computer Programming Called 'the Infinite Loop' Which Enables A Computer To Do What No Other Physical Machine Can Do - To Operate In Perpetuity Without Tiring. In The Same Way It Doesn't Know Exhaustion, It Doesn't Know When It's Wrong And It Can Keep Doing The Wrong Thing Over And Over Without Tiring.