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"Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future."
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"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."

"Start the conversion process and birth your products."

"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."

"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."

"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"

"During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel."

"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."

"Don't always complain the way isn't there. If you can't find the way, create it."

"The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."
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"It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no."


"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."


"Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover."


"It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth."


"Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie."


"A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other."


"I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something."


"Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question."


"Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose."


"We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around."
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