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

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.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

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

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.