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“You can have what you want, or you can have your reasons for not having it.’
Jack Brabham chose not to have his reasons.
He did it all by being unreasonable.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
Jack Brabham chose not to have his reasons.
He did it all by being unreasonable.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
“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?”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
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?”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
“No wonder men had more power. They had more power because they didn’t ask anyone else’s permission. They just went ahead and did what they wanted. And they weren’t as scared of being wrong as the women were. For them, getting the result was more important than being right.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
― 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.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
“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.”
― Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
― Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
Ploy’s 2025 Year in Books
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