Lateral Thinking Quotes

“A problem is simply the difference between what one has and what one wants.”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“En la búsqueda lógica se aspira al mejor enfoque posible, mientras que en la búsqueda lateral se aspira al mayor número posible de enfoques, prescindiendo de su valor práctico real. La búsqueda lógica se interrumpe cuando se llega a un enfoque satisfactorio. En el pensamiento lateral se reconoce también la calidad de un enfoque satisfactorio, pero se continúa la búsqueda de enfoques alternativos. Al final del proceso creador inicial se vuelve la mirada a dicho concepto prometedor para estudiarlo con más detalle. En la búsqueda lógica de alternativas se consideran sólo aquellos conceptos que poseen cierto sentido común. En la búsqueda lateral se aceptan inicialmente alternativas exentas de todo sentido común. La búsqueda lógica a menudo oculta una mera intención, que se abandona tan pronto como se encuentra una solución adecuada. La búsqueda lateral es una investigación consecuente y total, que no cesa ante un resultado, aunque el valor de éste sea obvio. Por consiguiente, la principal diferencia reside en la finalidad de la búsqueda. La inclinación lógica es buscar alternativas para encontrar la mejor solución, mientras que el pensamiento lateral tiene como objetivo, no el hallazgo inmediato de una solución óptima, sino la superación de la rigidez de los modelos conceptuales, provocando su disgregación y subsiguiente reordenación en nuevos modelos. Este proceso puede derivar en diferentes”
― Edward de Bono, El pensamiento lateral: Manual de creatividad (Biblioteca Edward De Bono)

“почти всичко може да бъде допълнително опростено.”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking

“This book is intended for use both at home and at school. At school the emphasis has traditionally always been on vertical thinking which is effective but incomplete. This selective type of thinking needs to be supplemented with the generative qualities of creative thinking. This is beginning to happen in some schools but even so creativity is usually treated as something desirable which is to be brought about by vague exhortation. There is no deliberate and practical procedure for bringing it about. This book is about lateral thinking which is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity

“A landscape is a memory surface. The contours of the surface offer an accumulated memory trace of the water that has fallen upon it. The rainfall forms little rivulets which combine into streams and then into rivers. Once the pattern of drainage has been formed then it tends to become ever more permanent since the rain is collected into the drainage channels and tends to make them deeper. It is the rainfall that is doing the sculpting and yet it is the response of the surface to the rainfall that is organizing how the rainfall will do its sculpting.”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“Empezar por el final y elaborar la solución hacia atrás es una conocida técnica para resolver problemas.”
― Edward de Bono, El pensamiento lateral: Manual de creatividad (Biblioteca Edward De Bono)

“En la búsqueda lógica se aspira al mejor enfoque”
― Edward de Bono, El pensamiento lateral: Manual de creatividad (Biblioteca Edward De Bono)

“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is 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.”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking

“With vertical thinking one concentrates and excludes what is irrelevant, with lateral thinking one welcomes chance intrusions”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“conclusion the soundness of that conclusion is proved by the soundness of the steps by which it has been reached. With lateral thinking the steps do not have to be sequential. One may jump ahead to a new point and then fill in the gap afterwards.”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“be moving usefully in some direction. With lateral thinking one may play around without any purpose or direction. One may play around with experiments, with models, with notation, with ideas. The movement and change of lateral thinking is not an end in itself but a way of bringing about repatterning. Once there is movement and change then the maximizing properties of the mind will see to it that something useful happens. The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’ Vertical thinking is analytical, lateral thinking is provocative.”
― Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step