Penicillin, transistor, assembly line: things that changed the course of human history. I remember their discoverers and inventors.

Toothpaste, chopstick, bikini: stuff that grease modern life, making it bearable or even enjoyable. I have taken for granted a multitude of things around me, without ever wondering about their creators.

Every man-made system, space, object, and idea must once be thought, tested, and produced; and so weaved into it are insights, frustrations, ambitions, triumphs. Who are the people behind the artifacts?

— 2007. 03. 07