Deliberate Obtuseness Strategy

"are over-valued. You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant. And if you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think."

"If you go in and be illogical, then half the time people will laugh at you, and half the time you will strike up something interesting because you have stopped everyone else from thinking logically, which has failed to provide a solution. Be a bit whacko and you shake people up a bit. And we all need shaking up."

"I had merely been obtuse. I had tried to be different on a whim, momentarily regretted it, and now here I was on this adventure. It was a lesson I never forgot, and in whimsical moments it even occurs to me to reflect on the similarity between a bassoon and a vacuum cleaner. I simply moved from a clumsy great piece of pipe that blows"