Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.
New ideas do not come from the ether; they are based on existing concepts.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
and we, as natural-born bricoleurs, happily borrow from ideas that we deem appropriate as well as discard or ignore what we deem unhelpful.
Brant Cooper • The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
Steal one percent each from a hundred sources and connect those sources into one creation. That is how to steal properly. But that also requires a man to widen the input sources while understanding how to direct them into his vision.
Bruno De Campos • River Through the Heart
nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before,
Tommy Orange • There There: A novel
“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson