"Where do ideas come from?" Insightful post from 'eighth blackbird' and worth the read...

As for Eureka! moments, we all like to believe those stories, but I think it’s bunk. Ideas don’t simply come out of nowhere; even the bona fide geniuses stood on the shoulders of giants. Sometimes the birth of the idea is so definitive a moment that we forget the struggle of its gestation

via blog.eighthblackbird.org