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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

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
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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.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to 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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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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