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How Remix Culture Fuels Creativity & Invention: Kirby Ferguson at TED

From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, or how copyright law came to hinder the very thing it set out to protect.

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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge: A 1939 Manifesto for the Incalculable Rewards of Joyful Curiosity

“Our conception of what is useful may… have become too narrow to be adequate to the roaming and capricious possibilities of the human spirit.”

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The Art of Chance-Opportunism in Creativity and Scientific Discovery

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We’re Wired for Science & How Originality Differs in Science vs. Art

“Every child is a scientist.”

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A Typographic Literary Map of San Francisco, in a Puzzle

From Kerouac to Steinbeck by way of The Mission.

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The Role of “Ripeness” in Creativity and Discovery: Arthur Koestler’s Seminal 1964 Theory of the Creative Process

“The Latin verb ‘cogito’ for ‘to think’ etymologically means ‘to shake together.'”

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An Anatomy of Inspiration: A 1942 Guide to How Creativity Works

“The true novelist, poet, musician, or artist is really a discoverer.”

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C. S. Lewis on Why “School Stories” and Media Distortion Are a More Deceptive Fiction Than Fiction

“Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction; they can be deceived by the stories in the women’s magazines.”

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Henry Miller on Originality

“And your way, is it really your way?”

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The Power of Simple Words, Animated

Getting from “no coordinates exist like one’s domicile” to “there’s no place like home.”

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Search results for “mark twain”

From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, or how copyright law came to hinder the very thing it set out to protect.

“Our conception of what is useful may… have become too narrow to be adequate to the roaming and capricious possibilities of the human spirit.”

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

“Every child is a scientist.”

From Kerouac to Steinbeck by way of The Mission.

“The Latin verb ‘cogito’ for ‘to think’ etymologically means ‘to shake together.'”

“The true novelist, poet, musician, or artist is really a discoverer.”

“Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction; they can be deceived by the stories in the women’s magazines.”

“And your way, is it really your way?”

Getting from “no coordinates exist like one’s domicile” to “there’s no place like home.”

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