I always enjoy the Eureka moments:

>“My seemingly inconsequential moment came one night while washing dishes and using a bristle brush to clean a tall glass,” said IBM’s Edwin Pednault. “It suddenly occurred to me that if one looks at the gates applied to a given qubit in a grid circuit, the gates form a bristle-brush pattern where the bristles are the entangling gates that are being applied to that qubit.” He then took this idea and applied it to simulating qubits.

So let us all applaud Louis F. Kutik who after inventing the plastic bristle brush in 1964 could not have surmised it's inspiration for advancements within the quantum computing domain.