Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Let's just say my mind is different.
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.
I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.
I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.
I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.
I'm not your average politician. I believe in higher forces.
My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?
When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'
I don't think, 'Oh, you know, I'm crazy and zany.'
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.
I'm against fashionable thinking.
I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
I don't have a nine-to-five brain.
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.
I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.
