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创造
Creation
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
通过类比进行预测——创造力——是如此普遍，以至于我们通常不会注意到它。
Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.
创意是如此让人难以捉摸，以至于人们可能不得不通过进化才能抓住它。
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.
如果不是我创造了我的整个世界，我肯定会死在别人的世界里。
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
我们没有考虑我们在创造这个世界的过程中所扮演的角色。
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
当你小心地把两块砖放在一起时，建筑就开始了。这就开始了。
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
数学是人类精神最美丽、最强大的创造。
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
你永远不需要改变你半夜起来写的东西。
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
有那么多独立的自我;没有一个创造性写作的人没有这样的感觉。
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
我相信，如果你想要创新，你必须愿意被误解。
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
当我完成一幅画的时候，我和其他人一样感到惊讶。
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.
成功的工具是用来做作者做梦也想不到的事情的工具。
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
生命和自然是取之不尽，用之不竭的，是对创造性思维的持续刺激。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
成为一名作家需要的不仅仅是天赋。
Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.
创造力，很简单，是一种真正的兴趣与主动性的结合。
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
创造更多的是为了消除不必要的东西，而不是发明新的东西。
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
创造力就是把事物联系起来。当你问有创造力的人他们是如何做某件事的，他们会感到有点内疚，因为他们并没有真正做这件事，他们只是看到了一些东西。过了一会儿，他们觉得很明显。这是因为他们能够把自己的经历联系起来，并综合新的事物。
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
创造性包括打破既定的模式，以不同的方式看待事物。
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
要有好的想法和真正的创新，你需要人与人之间的互动、冲突、争论、辩论。