“Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.”

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.

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.

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.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

I can use my awareness of my fear as a tool to help me make decisions that are truly in line with my values and purpose.

Your feelings are your greatest tools to help you create your life.