Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

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

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper