 The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. |
| Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. |
| Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. |
| If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. |
| It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. |
| Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. |
| I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role. |
| Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. |
