We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.