Quotes from work
Brightness Reef
Brightness Reef is a 1995 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, the fourth book of six set in his Uplift Universe . It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1996.
“A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original”
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.
