Ploy Phusri

“Great mathematicians are born with a brain fundamentally different from ours. We may as well be clear about the first one: no, mathematicians don’t think logically. It is in fact utterly impossible to think logically. Logic doesn’t help at all with thinking. We shall see later on what it is used for.”
― David Bessis, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

“Geffen is now worth around $6 billion.

Not by being better, or tougher, or faster, or smarter, or richer, or better educated than other people.

Not by trying to beat other people at their own game.
But by looking at other people and thinking, ‘What aren’t they doing?”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“Orson Welles summed it up best in The Third Man. ‘In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“I also like what Voltaire said about the English. ‘The English are like their own beer: the dregs are at the bottom, the top is nothing but froth, but the middle is quite excellent.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking