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The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
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Genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
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Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.
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The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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