Re: how to judge creative ideas

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Rick Tarara wrote:

> The way I remember seeing this quote the very first time, it ended with
> "but they also laughed at a lot of damned fools."  I suspect that Carl
> cleaned it up, but I can't find an attribution for the form I remember.  In
> fact, Carl's version really isn't very good since you are SUPPOSED to laugh
> at Bozo!

I wrote a bit about this quote on my "anti-scoffing" page:

  They Laughed at Galileo
  http://amasci.com/freenrg/arrhenus.html



And here's a list of "ridiculed geniuses" (still under construction)

  http://amasci.com/weird/vindac.html


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