I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.

— Tim Berners-Lee, developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee

Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206txt.html

Topics: creativity