The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.