Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

We get educated out of creativity.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.