I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.
Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.
The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity.
Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.
Oh press - must you spread hate? Can't you just stick to being wrong?
The problem isn't testosterone and aggression; it's how often we reward aggression. And we do: We give medals to masters of the "right" kinds of aggression. We preferentially mate with them. We select them as our leaders.