In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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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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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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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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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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