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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. -- William Ralph Inge
The map is not the territory. -- Alfred Korzybski
Ideas shape the course of history. -- John Maynard Keynes
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. -- Tom Stoppard
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. -- Stephen Sondheim
What is now proved was once only imagined. -- William Blake
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. -- Henry David Thoreau
The only joy in the world is to begin. -- Cesare Pavese
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour. -- Edward de Bono
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. -- Alvin Toffler
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -- John Dewey
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -- Albert Einstein
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. -- John Cassavetes
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. -- Edward de Bono
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage. -- Erich Fromm
Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics. -- Edward de Bono
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'. -- Edward de Bono
Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed. -- Salman Rushdie
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile? -- Eoin Colfer
With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them. -- Edward de Bono

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