What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

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.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.