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Inventing on Principle

6/26/2014

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This is universe denting philosophy. I stumbled upon this when looking into some of the inspirations behind Swift. What I found was SO much more than I was looking for...
Creators need an immediate connection to what they're creating. Creators need to be able to see what they’re doing.

There are millions of ideas locked in millions of heads...all kinds of ideas, including critically important ideas, world changing inventions, life saving scientific discoveries. These are all ideas that must be grown and without an environment in which they can grow, where a creator can nurture them with this immediate connection, many of these ideas will not emerge - or they will emerge stunted. 

When I see a violation of this principle, I don’t think of that as an opportunity. When I see creators constrained by their tools and their ideas compromised, I don’t say, “Oh good, an opportunity to make a product - an opportunity to start a business…” Ideas are very precious to me and when I see ideas dying, it hurts. I see a tragedy. …  And if I think there’s anything I can do about it, I feel it’s my responsibility to do so. Not opportunity, but responsibility.
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