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A good design is not a democratic consensus.

Edward de Bono

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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
Good
Consensus
Motivation
Democratic
Design
Business

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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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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.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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