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A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them

Drawn from what Isaac Asimov said

Subjectscreativityeducation
What these subjects mean

creativity Making something new: where ideas come from, what conditions let them come, and whether a machine can have them.

education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

What Isaac Asimov actually said

  1. Isaac Asimov American science fiction writer (1920 to 1992)
    Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all.

    Where this was said

    ↗How Do People Get New Ideas? (1959 essay, first published by MIT Technology Review, 2014)technologyreview.com

    c. 1959

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