Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
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.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
I never asked to be born, and death's no question. The sun's still shining off the same old lessons, Then why does life feel like an educated guess? And my thoughts are like meals. . . I'm a sucker for the seconds.
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly. . .
What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.