Tim O'Reilly Quotes

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

I think, at some point, there's only so much you can draw from within without getting inspired from what's around you and what other people are doing.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.