Entertainment gives you exactly what you want. But the artist doesn't operate like that. The artist makes demands on you. That's the essence of that artistic experience." - Ted Gioa.

https://youtu.be/ibMd_Jx9daw?si=IgimxH4bQzaX1ba3

Where do you get your inspiration? What sorts of things do you fill your head with? What do you read? Do you subscribe to anything? What sites do you visit on the Internet? What music do you listen to? What movies do you see? Do you look at art? What do you collect? What’s inside your scrapbook? What do you pin to the corkboard above your desk? Wha

from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."

Jeff Bezos in the Lex Fridman podcast:

efficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because invention, real invention, not incremental improvement, incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral

Steve Jobs explains the importance of both thinking and doing:

“The doers are the major thinkers. The people who really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person.”