Everything is a Remix.
Maria Popova reading at TED Salon: Border Stories
Kyle Kowalski has curated an overview of modern "combinatorial creators". In doing so he makes a great case that connecting ideas serves us well.
He starts by giving the mic to Maria Popova, founder of the popular blog Brain Pickings, now the Marginalian. And it gets better from there.
Article: Combinatorial Creativity: The Art of “New” Ideas & Why Everything is a Remix