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

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

To have a style is to be stuck.

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.

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

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.