People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Edward de Bono

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward de Bono

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
Edward de Bono

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.
Edward de Bono

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Edward de Bono

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
Edward de Bono