Combinatorial Creativity
everything is a remix of what came before
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Combinatorial Creativity
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
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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... See more
Steve Jobs • Steve Jobs on Creativity
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Danny Meyer the restaurateur has called ABCD: “always be collecting dots, so that you can always be connecting dots.” Dots or breadcrumbs, if your whole life is oriented around that collection, which mine is, then you're always preparing.
Frederik Gieschen • A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual
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It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.
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