We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story actors music and camera design. When it works it can entertain move people and teach us all.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need how they think and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.