Creativity is just connecting things. 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 reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Steve Jobs oeuvre creative
I’m not a psychopath, I’m just very creative. Eliezer Yudkowsky Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres
The precondition of creativity is, I think, disequilibrium, what mathematicians now call chaos. from the lecture "Opening the Doors of Creativity", 1990. Terence McKenna oeuvre chaos
I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about! Eliezer Yudkowsky Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres laziness work labor