“A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original”

—  David Brin , Brightness Reef

Source: Brightness Reef (1995), Ch. 25
Context: It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

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