創造性とは、ただ物事をつなげることだ。クリエイティブな人々にどうやってそれをやったのか尋ねると、彼らは少し罪悪感を感じる。なぜなら、彼らは本当にそれを「した」のではなく、何かを「見た」だけだからだ。しばらくすると、彼らにとってはそれが当たり前に思えてくる。それは、彼らが自分の経験をつなぎ合わせ、新しいものを合成することができたからだ。
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.
スティーブ・ジョブズこの著者の名言
ハングリーであれ、愚かであれ。
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.