IT Magazine – October 2007

What is the recipe for that breakthrough product? Innovation or Invention? Hard-core originality or smart thinking on your feet? Read on to discover more about making ‘all the difference’.

We are not talking about Adam here we’re talking about our permanent need to be ‘original’—all the time! “Who wants to do what has been done before, except, of course, when it can qualify as ‘inspiration’ Annu Malik ishtyle!” I have found our obsession for originality to be the single reason for creative paralysis. Designers, geeks, artists… everybody is inflicted.

Cameron Moll says, “Pablo Picasso, the first living artist to be featured in the Louvre, influenced the artistic world in a uniquely original way. So why is he known for saying ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’?”

“Picasso hardly meant that great artists steal popular designs whose original source is known to everyone,” says Wes George, writer for The Mac Observer.

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