2 Quotes by W. Brian Arthur

In its collective sense, technology is not merely a catalog of individual parts. It is a metabolic chemistry, an almost limitless collective of entities that interact to produce new entities-and further needs. And we should not forget that needs drive the evolution of technology every bit as much as the possibilities for fresh combination and the unearthing of phenomena. Without the presence of unmet needs, nothing novel would appear in technology.

At the creative heart of invention lies appropriation, some sort of mental borrowing that comes in the form of a half-conscious suggestion.