4th December 2007, 5:53 PM
Well fact is, some kids just aren't creative. I myself can't come up with something inventive at all. To my credit though, I DID learn how to trick adults into thinking I was smarter than I was, more or less by accident. Apparently if I just pull the internal slot machine of my mind and mix and match random things, I get praised. I knew it was bull back then, and the adults sure as punch didn't really think it was creative, but when you are "a kid", they sure enough vastly underestimate you enough that if I wanted "creative", I just put a cat on the moon which is made of a twinkie and BAM, instant A.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)