It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

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.

(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

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