On imagination

I have the suspicion that imagination works best, when leaving it alone, i.e. is fueled by laziness. There is a saying: "Laziness stimulates the engineering creativity." - I found this interesting with respect to the following quote by John Backus, one of the early designers of programming languages:

"Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs,"

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