I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.