"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein
I stumbles across this quote Wednesday after class and thought it correlated perfectly to the RIP! documentary. One of the greatest individual thinkers of our time, and a proclaimed genius can even admitt to the fact that his brilliance is heavily supported by other peoples ideas. I am a heavy believer in individual creativity to some extent, but expounding on an already good idea never hurt anyone. In fact, it probably benefits countless numbers of people. In some ways, borrowing from others is almost like a team effort. Collaboration is a highly valuable creative tool in most productive environments, so why can't collaboration and sampling ideas be seens as a broader scope of team work, rather than copyrite infringement.
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