Suzanne Lee Quotes

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world's hardest problems.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.

The challenges our state faces must be met with the best solutions and ideas we can muster - and good ideas and good people reside on both sides of the aisle.

Socialcam shares Autodesk's mission of helping everybody imagine, design, and create a better world.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

My hope is that design thinking becomes an innovative discipline and not just the trend of the decade. As a nation and globally, we have some of the biggest problems to solve we have ever faced. We need innovative ways to solve our problems and communicating the solutions will be paramount. Original thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration are all important skills for our future.

I have a lot to learn from designers.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.

What works in the real world is cooperation.

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I never wanted toys; I wanted electrical parts so I could build things. And I was better at taking things apart and putting them back together, but I always had extra pieces left over, so I think it was an early warning that I was a better designer than an engineer.

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.