Every skill must be nurtured by a commitment in depth to the present. The meaning of creativity may be seen as an equation which resolves this apparent paradox. Work that livs is rooted in the conditions of its time, but such conditions include awareness, dreams, and aspirations, as much as the resources of a specific technology, such work respects the past and actually creates the future. . . . No one can make truly creative decisions without understanding; and without a real participation in the constructive spirit of his time.
Norman Potter, What Is a Designer, 4th ed. (London: Hyphen, 2002), 36.

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