"You can't really be creative unless you understand the situation."

Ohh, now I see--we are all just waiting for "that guy/gal"....

Warmest regards,
John
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Sit down the six-pack!!! STEP AWAY!!! ...and go do something...

"Michael Black" wrote in message
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| "Joel Kolstad" ) writes:
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| I think that was Edison? Einstein said something like, "Creativity is
more
| important than knowledge," which unfortunately a lot of people seem to
want to
| interpret as "Hence, knowledge is unimportant," which is not at all what
he
| meant.
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| You can't really be creative unless you understand the situation. On the
| other hand, people can spout things but be unable to do anything with
| it because they aren't extracting from the situation.
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| Creativity is an extrapolation. A good example is Charles Kitchin's
| work with regen and superregen receivers. He went back, looked at early
| material, understood it, and then implemented solid state versions.
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| Michael VE2BVW