Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

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

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

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.

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

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.