Re: how to judge creative ideas

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 11:33 -0400 6/11/02, John S. Denker quoted:
> But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does
> not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
> They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
> they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also
> laughed at Bozo the Clown.
>                                       - Carl Sagan

I believe it was also Sagan who said something to the effect:

If you want to assume the mantle of Galileo or Columbus as a scorned
genius, it is also necessary that you be right.

Hugh
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