We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
EDWARD DE BONOTo be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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