True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete
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