Brilliant lecture on creativity by John Cleese of Monty Python fame (this is from 1991).
Even better, I also found the transcript. I know, John Cleese is as good as it gets, and it is also incredibly funny, but the lecture is too slow for me. I prefer to read. It used to be this way also when I was a student at the University: I skipped lectures as soon as I found a good and dense textbook.
Just for association of ideas, it comes to my mind a short gag of “The West Wing in mind”. I could not remember it exactly, so I just searched for the word “menu” in this site with the complete TWW scripts. Here it is: episode 11, series 7 (the video is below, at time 0:52):
The waitress walks up and hands them some menus. C.J. Hi. Thank you. WAITRESS Mmm-hm. Would you like to hear the specials? DANNY Please. WAITRESS Well, tonight we're featuring New Zealand lamb... C.J. Is this from a list? WAITRESS I'm sorry? C.J. The specials, are they written down somewhere? WAITRESS Um, yeah, they're right here.
Just give us that. We'll read. We're readers. WAITRESS Whatever you want. C.J. It's just easier that way, then you don't have to, you know, perform
Web search is powerful and superfast. No excuse for not having enough information on the past, no matter if for fun or for serious business.