Quote

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.