Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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.
Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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.
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity creates focus.
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.
On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
A good design is not a democratic consensus.