The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones

Introduction: The Innovation Lament 1

1. The Innovation Intent 15

2. The Gods Must Be Crazy (Or Is It Just Me?) 25

3. The Eureka Moment 33

4. It Came to Me in a Dream 47

5. In the Mood for Innovation 59

6. Endlessly Intriguing: Curiosity 73

7. Painfully Obvious: Constraints 93

8. Distantly Related: Connections 137

9. Diametrically Opposed: Conventions 163

10. Suddenly Brilliant: Codes 187

Epilogue: And So It Is with All Things New 213

Notes 217

Further Reading 229

Acknowledgments 231

The Author 233

Index 235