Here is a bit of inspiration from Ted Hughes' Poetry in the Making

I was thinking yesterday that "quantum" anything is both much more exciting and much less exciting than we've been led to believe by "Pop Science".

It seems to boil down so far to some fancy linear algebra. I'm sure time will prove me a fool for thinking this, but just want to jot my thoughts down here.

I think that this is an excellent point. However, while I would love to incorporate it, it doesn't seem relevant, so I'll have to let it go.

I wonder how that happened. (Note: This sentence is intended to be read in a distinct, non sarcastic tone)

How many languages did he learn through his life? He knew German as a child living in Germany, but also learned French and English through his maids. He studied history, where knowing other languages is an enormous help. So, how many did he learn through his life?

I wonder what his family thought of the aristocracy at that point.

what DO we do? what do WE do? what do we DO?

This statement seems to me a stretch-- a very far stretch.

What does it mean to have "infinite ideas"? And how do you arrive at the judgments "enough" and "as good" here?

Ideas don't exist in isolation; they are not individual fruits to be plucked from the world of thought. Ideas are built upon other ideas. They are embedded within each other, juxtaposed one next to the other, stacked, remixed; varied one from the other, sometimes as a derivation, sometimes an inspiration.

And in the face of this, what is the notion of "creation"? Given a certain base of knowledge, there are some natural next steps that can be built from those basic building blocks.

Here we have to disentangle the notion of discovery from creation. I think maybe that, in part, is the notion of patents vs copyright, but in the land of software we seem to have a tangled mess.