Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Even if we imagine I'm a Kremlin project, then I'm a good Kremlin project because I'm saying out things that have not been said before.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.
Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.
A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo) ... I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)
We won't get fooled again!
There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing the right things. On such occasions, we have to rethink - either you change the rules or break the rules.
Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment.
Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'
I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."
So Far,So Good........................So What?
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?
We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
