Where Do New Ideas Come From? The

My Advice To Graduates Is To Do Anything Except What You Are Trained For. Take That Training To A Place Where It Is Out Of Place And Stimulate Ideas, Shake Up Establishments, And Don't Take No For An Answer.

Nations Have The Wrong Granularity. They’re Too Small To Be Global And Too Big To Be Local, And All They Can Think About Is Competing.

Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator In Being Digital Is Not Your Operating System, Modem, Or Model Of Computer. It's A Tiny Piece Of Plastic, Designed Decades Ago By Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, And Company, Who Thought They Were Making An Inconspicuous Plug For A Few Telephone Handsets. Not In Their Wildest Dreams Was Registered Jack 11 - A Modular Connector More Commonly Known As The Rj-11 - Meant To Be Plugged And Unplugged So Many Times, By So Many People, For So Many Reasons, All Over The World.

In The World Of Computers And Just Devices In General, The Lifespan, Or The Shelf Life, Is Relatively Short Just Because Technology Moves So Fast And The Costs Drop So Quickly And The Power, Whether It's Computing Power Or Memory Rises Very, Very Quickly.

The Cost Of Electronics In A Modern Car Now Exceeds The Cost Of Its Stall.