Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.