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The number one benefit of information technology

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so, in a sense, it is all about potential.
— Steve Ballmer

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An Expert

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
— Niels Bohr

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Good Theft vs. Bad Theft

At some point, you’ll have to move from imitating your heroes to emulating them. Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.
— Austin Kleon in Steal Like An Artist
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American Creativity is Declining

“For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining” in part due to a “focus on standardized curriculum, rote memory and nationalized testing.”
— The Creativity Crisis (Bronson, Po and Merryman, Ashley. Newsweek, July 10, 2010)

Wayne Gretzsky

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
— Wayne Gretzsky

All Children are Artists

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
— Pablo Picasso

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of a man go together.

John Ruskin Masquerade