Willian Quotes

To think is to differ.

Ten men, ten minds

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I'm wired differently.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

I guess different brains work in different ways.

There is a talent in dyslexia - it can help you see things creatively. So I wouldn't change a thing.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

Most of my work is in my mind.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

I think people are looking for an alternative because in addition to there being sort of a myopic, lemming - like ants on a sugar cube mentality on this DNS attack story by many in the media, there's just this culture of sameness. Everybody sounds the same.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.