Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

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.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

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

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.

..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

You should just do the right thing.

I don't need a man in my life.

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.