If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. - John Cleese

I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, “Let’s run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.

Once you've got — actually got — an idea that is whirring around so fast that no other light or contrary evidence can come in, I think it's very dangerous.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies