Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 3 (p. 32)
Spencer Tunick in: "Interview Spencer Tunick," at coolcleveland.com, 2004.
“Whatever you like at age 16, you will find boring at age 32.”
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Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)
Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 4 (p. 33)
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.”
ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
2000s, A Conversation with Alan Kay, 2004–05
Context: Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.
“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.”
June 22, 1839
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: The Museum of Innocence
