Life Is A Mountain Of Solvable Problems

Children Want The Challenge Of Difficult Tasks - Just Look How Much Better They Are Than Their Parents On A Computer.

Manufacturing Is More Than Just Putting Parts Together. It's Coming Up With Ideas, Testing Principles And Perfecting The Engineering, As Well As Final Assembly.

Engineering Is Treated With Disdain, On The Whole. It's Considered To Be Rather Boring And Irrelevant, Yet Neither Of Those Is True.

I've Obviously Used Fans - I Wouldn't Say All My Life, Because We Couldn't Afford Them When I Was Young, But From My 20s And Onwards We've Had To Use Fans. And I've Always Loathed Them. Everything About Them. The Way You Adjust Them, Getting Them At The Angle You Want. Carrying Them. Cleaning Them. The Danger Of Putting Your Finger In Them.

We’re Taught To Do Things The Right Way. But If You Want To Discover Something That Other People Haven’t, You Need To Do Things The Wrong Way. Initiate A Failure By Doing Something That’s Very Silly, Unthinkable, Naughty, Dangerous. Watching Why That Fails Can Take You On A Completely Different Path. It’s Exciting, Actually. To Me, Solving Problems Is A Bit Like A Drug. You’re On It, And You Can’t Get Off.