“Ben Chestnut quotes Steve Jobs’ famous line, “Creativity is just connecting things”. But, says Ben, this only works if you *actually have THINGS to connect*.
And if want to have THINGS to connect, first you have to MAKE them.
You. Have. To. Make. Things.”
http://hughcartoons.com/2016/01/04/how-to-run-a-creative-business/
“When we use a violin, we create a song. When we use an iPhone, we create each other and ourselves.”
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/11/9493425/technology-isnt-a-tool-its-an-instrument
“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution. That is not a lesser task.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/the-tweaker
“…Steve Jobs code-named Lisa for his daughter, but nobody acknowledged that at the time. Instead, Apple told people it was an acronym for “Local Integrated System Architecture”. Folks who know better decided it really meant “Let’s invent some acronym”.”
http://scottknaster.blogspot.ca/2014/01/before-mac-was-lisa-apples-10000.html
“Complexity isn’t the reason why Netflix doesn’t allow offline viewing. It’s just their excuse for not having it yet. It’s right out of the Steve Jobs handbook: something you don’t offer is a terrible idea, until you offer it yourself, at which point you explain why your solution is the first to get it right.”
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/08/gizmodo-netflix
“…Would you rather do something extraordinary that benefits the lives of millions of people? Or be liked by several hundred? And does it have to be an either-or question?
The answer, like [Steve] Jobs, is complicated.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/business/dealbook/decoding-steve-jobs-in-life-and-on-film.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1