A quote from Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
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A quote from Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
And that is the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Jenna Guarascio added
the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Keely Adler and added
“People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.” – Trung Phan quoting Carl Jung. This is the greatest explanation for memes
Jim O'Shaughnessy • Smart Threads and Dumb Memes | Trung Phan on Infinite Loops with Jim O’Shaughnessy • Podcast Notes
sari added
“An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.”
Sam Tatam • Evolutionary Ideas
Kaustubh Sule added
There are no new ideas. What is new is your perspective.
Ayoola John added
Having an idea, a new idea, is exactly the same thing. It's connecting two hitherto separate ideas in a way that generates new meaning.
JamesClear.com • "Creativity in Management"
Prashanth Narayan added
Where do new ideas come from if not some alchemical blending of old ideas? In order to invent, one first needed a proper inventory, a bank of existing ideas to draw on. Not just an inventory, but an indexed inventory. One needed a way of finding just the right piece of information at just the right moment.