"As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike."

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Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

Alex Faickney Osborn

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“Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.”
“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.”

Source : "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.
“The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.”
“We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.”
“Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.”
“...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.”
“No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.”
“I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.”

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