People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

The organization of information actually creates new information.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

Let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.