People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

Novel ideas are unsettling, innovative concepts about important matters in human affairs is disruptive of the internal harmony that people prefer. There is a tendency even for the most logical and classically educated people steeped in rational scholastic traditions to assume that if any new hypothesis were correct, a scholar would already written it in a book.

The new radical ideas will soon be the old radical ideas.