It is a good point, though, that creativity involves the ability to deal with an issue in a way that has never been done before, or at least to your knowledge. If someone else has written the code you need, but didn’t post it online, that doesn’t make you less creative when you write it yourself, just less original.

Finally, while I agree that intelligence levels are probably the most evident when creativity is involved, even that can be simply an issue of simply knowing specific inane facts that others in a similar situation don’t know. There is a famous speech by Steve Jobs where he talks about the fluke of learning about typefaces in a class he wouldn’t have taken had he not dropped out of college and how that benefited the original Mac. Perhaps part of the genius is just knowing that you should apply your own personal store of useless knowledge to a situation.