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Charlie Mingus, jazz pianist and composer, reputedly said:
"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird --- that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace --- making the complicated simple, awesomely simple --- that's creativity."
(See ^zhurnal OnAesthetics 26 Aug 1999 and HearingShapes 28 May 2000.)
I noticed that in physics, for example, the big goal seems to be to make simple rules that are very powerful. These are things like Newton's laws, the conservation laws, and the laws of thermodynamics. They are so simple, but they're nearly correct.
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