People often claim that talk of ‘rules’ and ‘constraints’ — especially in the context of computer programs — must be irrelevant to creativity, which is an expression of human freedom. But far from being the antithesis of creativity, constraints n thinking are what make it possible. This is true even for combinatorial creativity, but it applies even more clearly to exploration-based originality.
— Boden, Margaret A. The Creative Mind. Myths and Mechanisms. 1990. Second ed. London: Routledge, 2004.
