Combinatorial Creativity

everything is a remix of what came before

sari and

andrea

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sari

alex

"the things that inspire me the most are the intersection points, kind of intersections between two things that were never intersected before... Steve Jobs did this fantastically with calligraphy and computers, James Terrell with astronomy and web architecture..." Josh at the Browser Company on the Moth Minds podcast

Alara

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that

Steve Jobs • Steve Jobs on Creativity

sari

From Jorge Luis Borges:

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

sari

Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.

alex

everything is a remix

sari

It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.

sari