Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT wrote a game called Zork in the summer of 1977 for the PDP-10 minicomputer which became quite popular on the ARPANET.

Inspired by the history and legend Rich Nardin wrote " Piper's Refrain ", about the end of Campbell's story, circa 1980.

Inspired by radical debate in the student community, he wrote a critical essay on Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.

Inspired by a Dear John letter he had received from his girlfriend, Raksin wrote the haunting theme for which Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics.

Inspired by Linnaeus, Dahl wrote a Horologium Florae, a " flower-clock " of Skara, which was posthumously published in Ny Journal uti Hushållningen, in May – June of 1790.

Inspired by his son's charity, Dawes wrote,

Inspired by the death of Latimer's father, he and Hoover then wrote Harbour of Tears ( nickname for Cobh ( pronounced ' cove ') harbour in Ireland from which many sailed off to the USA during the Potato Famine ) under the Camel name, which was released in 1996.

* Inspired by the river during his honeymoon, the American classical music composer Charles Ives wrote The Housatonic at Stockbridge as part of his composition Three Places in New England.

" Inspired by prior wedding statements made by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill in 1851, and by Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Grimké in 1838, the two wrote up a tract they called " Marriage Protest " and printed a number of copies to hand out at their wedding.

Inspired in part by classical authors who wrote in the pastoral mode — in addition to Virgil and Theocritus including comparatively obscure recently rediscovered Latin poets Calpurnius and Nemesianus — and by Boccaccio's Ameto, Sannazaro depicts a lovelorn first-person narrator (" Sincero ") wandering the countryside ( Arcadia ) and listening to the amorous or mournful songs of the shepherds he meets.

Inspired by this, Janowitz and Mayer devised their story that night and wrote it in the following six weeks.

Inspired by the book, director – producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation titled Storm Warnings, in 1982.

Inspired by this newly found love, Xu wrote a large number of poems during this time.

Inspired by the river during his honeymoon, the American classical music composer Charles Ives wrote The Housatonic at Stockbridge as part of his composition Three Places in New England during the 1910s.

Inspired by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he wrote two impassioned poems, the first entitled Waterloo, the second, Devastation du muse, both written in the heat of patriotic enthusiasm, and teeming with popular political allusions.

Inspired by the success of the melodies of Stephen Foster, between August 1851 and 1857 Crosby and George F. Root, who had taught music at the Blind Institution from 1845 to 1850, wrote at least sixty secular " people's songs " or parlour songs, some for the popular minstrel shows.

Inspired by the story of Aladdin, he wrote Aladdin und die Wunderlampe.

Inspired by her mother's work, Lusha then wrote her own collection of poems in various languages a few years later.

Inspired by it, he put it up over his desk and wrote the film just over a weekend with her specifically in mind for the lead role.

Inspired by the criminality of the French novelist Jean Genet, Hijikata wrote manifestoes of his emergent dance form with such as titles as ' To Prison '.

" Inspired by Simeon's interest, in the next few months Warren wrote the remaining six songs used on the " Silver Apples " album.

Inspired by Virgin Steele's Metal Opera, the German band Tobias Sammet's Avantasia wrote various albums using the same format.

Inspired by seeing parts of the New World, he wrote an extensive history of the French settlements in the Americas, the Histoire de la Nouvelle-France.

Inspired by the strange dream and the unusual appearance of Balaji in the dream, the founder of the temple Mohandas Maharaj, got constructed a mud-stone temple initially with the help of Muslim craftsmen Noora and Dau of Fatehpur Shekhawati.

Their works, varying from martini glasses to tiles and cloth patterns, are labelled as “ Inspired by Bombay Sapphire ”.

Inspired from his trip South, Alston began his " family series " in the 1940s.

Inspired by Voltaire's sense of the breadth of history, Hume widened the focus of history, away from merely Kings, Parliaments, and armies, to literature and science as well.

Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards, one of which was sold to the British government in 1859.

In the year 2009, the was Sam Fransikachea Visvaxiponnachea Dekhin, Jezu-Noketra Bhaxen Porzollum-ia, which translates from Konkani into English as ' Inspired by the faithfulness of Saint Francis, let us shine like Jesus, the Star ', probably based on the year's pastoral theme of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão Noketram Bhaxen, Sonvsarant Porzollum-ia which translates into English as ' Shine like Stars, in the World '.

Inspired by a New York Times article about a gathering of former showgirls from the Ziegfeld Follies, they decided upon a story about ex-showgirls.

Inspired by Mullan's book, Edwards named the monument A Hero Who Could Fly and used the following quote from the Irish author on the monument:

: The fluidity and wit of the witches is evident in the ever-changing acronym: the basic, original title was Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell [...] and the latest heard at this writing is Women Inspired to Commit Herstory.

Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company, it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003.

Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, now a retired high school chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, founded the National Mole Day Foundation ( NMDF ) on May 15, 1991.

Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).

Inspired by the Beats of the 1950s, who declared themselves independent from the authoritarian order of America, the Haight-Ashbury community rested on a rejection of American commercialism.

* Various Artists-Music from and Inspired by the Film Highlander II: The Quickening ( 1990 )

Inspired by the imported pottery from the eastern Mediterranean, in about 6000 BC they created the first pottery to be made in France.

Inspired by the Spanish riches from colonies founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and other large Native American populations in the sixteenth century, the first Englishmen to settle permanently in America hoped for some of the same rich discoveries when they established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.

In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time ; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander ( the Inspired Woman ) and satirized by Lucian ( Gallus 18 seq .).

The origins of this sport is claimed to be derived from the Athenians when Themistocles, marching his army against the Persians, chanced upon two cocks fighting and charged his army saying “ Behold, these do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, for glory, for liberty or the safety of their children, but only because one will not give way to the other .” Inspired, his army defeated the Persians and after ordained by law, cockfighting was annually practiced as " an institution partly religious and partly political at Athens, and continued there for the purpose of improving the seeds of valour in the minds of the Athenian youth ".

Inspired in part by a visit to Palestine during which he was struck by the historic parallels between the British and Roman occupations of the region, the book draws on materials from early British history and mythology and the history and myths of the Mediterranean region to explore the possibility of small cultures resisting the power of empire.

Inspired by the principles of the French Revolution, its members were mainly drawn from the middle class and intellectuals.

Inspired by Cubist and surrealist exhibitions from abroad, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia.

Inspired by a scene from one of his nightmares, Kevin has brought another Sun along with him, and just as the dog is about to release itself, he takes its picture, trapping it once more in the " Polaroid world ".

Inspired by Menegroth in Doriath, and seeking a hidden place from which to be safe from the forces of Morgoth, Finrod established it in the early years of the First Age, in the Caverns of Narog beneath the forested hills of Taur-en-Faroth on the western bank of Narog.

Inspired by Harry Harlow's famous experiments on rhesus monkeys, which established a link between neurotic behavior and isolation from a care-giving mother, Prescott further proposed that a key component to development comes from the somesthetic processes ( body touch ) and vestibular-cerebellar processes ( body movement ) induced by mother-child interactions, and that deprivation of this stimulation causes brain abnormalities.