To have a style is to be stuck.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.