I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I also wanted to be an Author and Write G…

- Suw Charman-Anderson

I am terminally curious, so I tend to be attracted to the shiny. That's a mixed blessing, as sometimes it means that I can end up right on the cuttin…

- Suw Charman-Anderson

Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.

- Suw Charman-Anderson

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child t…

- Suw Charman-Anderson

For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a huge n…

- Suw Charman-Anderson

As for where I am now, well, social media didn't exist when I was a child, and I never would have guessed just how much of a role in my life and care…

- Suw Charman-Anderson

The amazing thing about working in social media and technology is that you can get to know the sharpest thinkers from around the world without having…

- Suw Charman-Anderson

It might sound trite, but happiness is a decision not a destination, and my choices now are all based on whether not a particular action will get me …

- Suw Charman-Anderson

It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, whi…

- Suw Charman-Anderson