You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.

The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

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.

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

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.