As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.
Observation capitalizes inspiration.