“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“You shouldn’t be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that’s what science is all about.”
Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 5 “Main Channel”, Section 2 (p. 226)
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