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“In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.”

Thinking Used Process Creativity Information Skills Mathematics Insight Acquire Lateral Thinking Restructuring

Book:Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

Source: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.”

Want Writing May Book Ideas Might Certain Creativity Pieces Information Produce Inspired Broads

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.”

World Firsts Humans Use Passion Lines Creativity Information Internet Ambition Innovation Greed Advertising Liberation Conformity Commerce Floating

Author:Neil Strauss

“I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.”

People World Want Kind Whole Light Inspiration Passion Creativity Information Laughter Accomplish Whole World Celebrate Greedy

Author:Renee Zellweger

“You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.”

People Thinking Should Art Ideas Creativity Share Information

Author:Michael Moore

“It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.”

Source: Science, Order, and Creativity

“As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.”

People Different Together Passion Creativity Information Designer Different Peoples Facets

Author:Nicki Minaj

“Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.”

Thinking Trying Inspiration Brain Creativity Figures Information Confused Leading Me Inspiration And Creativity Misinterpretation I'm Confused

Author:Michel Gondry

“Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.”

Problem Process Creativity Information Solutions Difficulty Errors Seeking Trials Gaps Hypothesis Identifying Trial And Error Sensing

Author:Ellis Paul Torrance

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”

“In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.”

Source: The Politics of Self-Determination