Inventors Gene Fein of California and Ed Merritt of Massachusetts came up with the idea.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Children's writer Edward Stratemeyer came up with the idea of Nancy Drew in nineteen twenty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"And on that fateful trip from New York to Hollywood, Walt came up with the idea of using a mouse for his next cartoon character.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

When I wrote 'blue cathedral' there is a huge English horn solo in the middle of it, and that's actually the first idea I came up with."

VOA: special.2010.07.12