A quote from Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
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A quote from Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
Any text is woven entirely with citations, references, echoes, cultural languages, which cut across it through and through in a vast stereophony. The citations that go to make up a text are anonymous, untraceable, and yet already read; they are quotations without inverted commas. The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the b
... See morecreativity 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
Creativity boils down to putting old things together in new ways, which is a two-step process: One, get knowledge and experience. Two, make unexpected connections.