New ideas are created by thought, in response to problems new and old. Solutions cause new problems. Tools don't think.
David Deutsch

It's not computers that do or don't think, it's programs.
It's not a brain that writes novels, it's a mind.
David Deutsch

Essentialism causes an immense amount of unnecessary conflict. Or rather, makes necessary conflicts unnecessarily intractable.
David Deutsch

No society could remain static solely by suppressing new ideas once they have been created. That is why the enforcement of the status quo is only ever a secondary method of preventing change – a mopping-up operation. The primary method is always – and can only be – to disable the…