If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
EDWARD DE BONOChild mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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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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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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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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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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