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Ideas are alien life forms with an agency and intelligence independent of any mind or substrate which they inhabit.

Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead

All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life—collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand.

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

We do not create or “have” ideas—if anything is doing the creating or having, it is the ideas themselves.