Quotes About Insight

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Some part of a mistake is always correct.

The move is there, but you must see it.

The magician has to know what the explanation for his magic is.

You are to imagine a Realworld room with three light bulbs in it. Outside the room are three electric switches. You may only enter the room once, and you may only have one switch on when you enter the room. How can you work out which switch operates which light?

Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.

foreignness that gave him the ability to see the distinctiveness of America.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

When did ignorance become a point of view?

was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.

Increasing creativeness doesn't require anything more than increasing your observations: become more aware of possible combinations.

Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.

Much of what bad managers do is assume their job is simply to find new things to jam and new places to jam them into, without ever believing they need to understand how the system—the system of people known as culture—works.

Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other.

Often, QA has the best insight into design oversights and potential failure cases that others will overlook.

Expressing ideas is often the only way to fully understand what ideas are, and to know what it is you really think.

Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." — Douglas Adams

If you want to learn the secrets of any performer, see his show twice. Then you'll notice how much of what seems improvised truly is.

the saving question was always, "How will this impact the user experience?

truths are discovered by breaking rules: you need to break some to learn which are just for show and which ones matter.

An epiphany is a powerful experience, but the myth of epiphany is that it alone is all you need.

They don't have to be superhuman, or even particularly bright, to do this (as I've no doubt discovered). They just have to understand the advantage of their perspective and choose to make use of it.

Just as there is an advice paradox, there is a data paradox: no matter how much data you have, you still depend on your intuition for deciding how to interpret and then apply the data.