It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.