One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.
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Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens.
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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.
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I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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