Steve Jobs on Creativity
“Creativity is just connecting things,” Jobs told Wired magazine. “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 reas
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você quer fazer conexões que sejam inovadoras”, disse Steve Jobs no distante ano de 1982, “é preciso não ter a mesma bagagem de experiências que todos os outros têm.”
Adam Grant • Originais: Como os inconformistas mudam o mundo (Portuguese Edition)
recurring pattern in the history of innovation is the combination of something with its inverse to form a single invention: the clawhammer joined nail removal with nail driving; the pencil was joined with the eraser. By combining the hitherto opposed roles of businessman and hippie, Jobs provided a walking example of the same pattern.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Steve Jobs on happy accidents: "Process makes you more efficient. But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has
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