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“Don’t let people rent space in your head”
-Warren Dahlin
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
– Henry Miller
“Creativity is intelligence having fun”
― Albert Einstein
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
– William S. Burroughs
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it”
– Salvador Dali
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong ,you’ll never come up with any thing original”
– Sir Ken Robinson
“A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man’s mind.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
– William Blake
“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
– FDR, first inaugural address.
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
— Jonh Steinbeck
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity”
— John F. Kennedy
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
— Harry Truman  
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
— Pablo Picasso  
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
  — Thomas Edison    
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
— Jonathan Swift  

12 years ago
“Search bar” poetry

Navigating a technologically-dependent world can sprout creativity in mundane situations – let’s take googling as example. I, personally, use Google with such frequency that the search engine replaced a wise grandmother I never had. I can ask “it” questions ranging from “best Russian pancake recipe” to a “way to get rid of gnats in my plants”. However, I never thought of “it” as creative!

Joe Berkowitz’s “The Accidental Poetry of Google’s Predictive Search” article on Fast Company discovers another feature of Google – an accidental creative talent that we all take for granted daily. Check out the Google Poem Thread on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/googlepoems

Click here to read the article on FastCompany

 

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