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“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields…” quote by Aaron Swartz — Download Open image

“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”

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Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer…

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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries…

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What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that,…

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Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers'…

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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in…

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Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never…

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But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge…

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With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a…

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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.”

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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

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If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

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“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

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Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

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