Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

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.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.