How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Creative minds have the ability to imagine or invent something new by combining, changing or reapplying existing ideas.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.