“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”
“On Lego's"Listen, I don't want to stifle your creativity, but that thing you built there, it looks a pile of shit.”
“Many articles and books on creativity encourage us to 'think out of the box' and get rid of all the restrictions on our thinking. The trouble with this advice is that it is almost entirely wrong. It is very difficult to be creative when 'anything goes' and you have no limitations, because it is the limitations that actually encourage creativity.”
“Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?”
“Thinking within strict limits is stifling”