"Those Crazy Ideas" - Isaac Asimov on Creativity

Posted by asciilifeform on Friday December 07, 2007 @09:14PM
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http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:yS6Dl3orO0oJ:www.iit.edu/~symposium/dox/1999-10-06%2520Those%2520Crazy%2520Ideas.doc&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

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Re:"Those Crazy Ideas" - Isaac Asimov on Creativity by 3KWA on Saturday December 08, 2007 @03:34AM (#87251)

"I think therefore I am" is not from Aristotle but Rene Descartes not a good way to start :P

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Re:"Those Crazy Ideas" - Isaac Asimov on Creativity by pg on Saturday December 08, 2007 @03:57AM (#87253)

Is this even by Asimov? It's hard to imagine him making such a mistake.

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Re:"Those Crazy Ideas" - Isaac Asimov on Creativity by rms on Saturday December 08, 2007 @04:19AM (#87254)

"President, Jamar A. Martin" added the first paragraph. This is more clear in the actual .doc. Some short phrases can be matched up in Google's indexed version of the publication of the essay.

http://books.google.com/books?ei=gGhaR77JGoTqiQHAht20Bg&...

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Re:"Those Crazy Ideas" - Isaac Asimov on Creativity by asciilifeform on Monday December 10, 2007 @11:06AM (#87818)

The mistake was added by someone else in the foreword. The essay is genuine - I originally saw it in a vintage dead-tree collection.

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