If you never change your mind, why have one?
EDWARD DE BONOComplexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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