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Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.