The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

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.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

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

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

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