My job is simply to design gadgets that I like Inventors are people who not only curse, but who also start to think of what can be done to eliminate the bother...When I see something that I don't like, I try to invent a way around it. My job is simply to design gadgets that I like. Jacob Rabinow, The Evolution of Useful Things The iPodYou and your user are one innovation
The research agenda Important connections are often made by accident, outside the bounds of our research agenda. Karen L. Kramer, The Spoken and the Unspoken The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge creativity