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Subject:RE: Creativity and Single Sourcing From:MAGGIE SECARA <SECARAM -at- mainsaver -dot- com> To:"'Cheryle W'" <cjwiese -at- hotmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:41:15 -0700
What I'm seeing in all this is the equation of "creativity" to fiddling with
templates,
and that's hardly the issue. As someone just said. Shakespeare wrote rather
well within the very strict constraints of a sonnet form. Was he being
soberly technical and therefore non-creative?
Creativity in our profession isn't about whimsical margin setting any more
than it's about painting a mountain. It's about how we approach the subject
matter and the task of communicating it. It's about figuring out how the
damn thing works from an incomplete spec and a half-functioning prototype,
and an engineer whose native tongue is not your own.
Isn't it?
Cheers!
Maggie Secara
secaram -at- mainsaver -dot- com
A Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603)
is at http://ren.dm.net
Leap, and the net will appear.
--Orson Wells
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cheryle W [SMTP:cjwiese -at- hotmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 4:21 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Creativity and Single Sourcing
>
> Maggie wrote:
>
> <snip>"I really don't want to get in this. But Sean, are you equating
> creativity with Art? And saying that only Art requires or permits
> creativity?"</snip>
>
> I suppose it depends on what "creativity" means. The Dilberty buzzword du
>
> jour for this is "thinking outside the box" (which makes me think people
> who
> use this cliche' are doing exactly the opposite). :)))
>
>
