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

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

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

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

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.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.