lol. I sometimes find myself in physics class coding in my head on how to incorporate it in flash lol. funny stuff. I doze off and daydream about flash...

I don't think you need to read books to make a great book. You don't need to take anything as inspiration. It's probably better if you do, yes, but you don't NEED to. Who showed the first person who wrote a book how to write? First SciFi book. First romance novel. First.... ya.

Who did mosaic take as inspiration (I think that was the first search engine).

You can make beautiful games and stuff with no inspiration.