Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
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Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
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Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#2The next guy who upvotes anything starting with "Paul Graham was right" is going to get his legs broken.
Ok, not really (just saw the Sopranos on dvd last night), but let's not turn this into a dumb fan boy site.
There are tons of those already.
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#3Don't waste your time clicking on the link.
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#4Well, bad ideas are worthless.
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#5The next guy who upvotes anything starting with "Paul Graham was right" is going to get his legs broken. Ok, not really (just saw the Sopranos on dvd last night), but let's not turn this into a dumb fan boy site. There are tons of those already.
I disagree with Paul Graham - but no one commented on these
arguments(http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19535)
http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-wrong-ideas-can.html
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#6The next guy who upvotes anything starting with "Paul Graham was right" is going to get his legs broken. Ok, not really (just saw the Sopranos on dvd last night), but let's not turn this into a dumb fan boy site. There are tons of those already.
I disagree with Paul Graham - but no one commented on these arguments( http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19535) http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-wrong-ideas-can.html
That's because you're playing with semantics. Ideas are worthless because an idea can't solve a problem. It's the implementation of an idea that solves the problem.
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree with Paul Graham - but no one commented on these arguments( http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19535) http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-wrong-ideas-can.html
That's because you're playing with semantics. Ideas are worthless because an idea can't solve a problem. It's the implementation of an idea that solves the problem.
Well, think back to the idea Einstein had when he was a 14 year old kid.
"if I can ride a motorcycle as fast as a beam of light..."
was it worthless?
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because you're playing with semantics. Ideas are worthless because an idea can't solve a problem. It's the implementation of an idea that solves the problem.
Well, think back to the idea Einstein had when he was a 14 year old kid. "if I can ride a motorcycle as fast as a beam of light..." was it worthless?
Yes, it was, until he executed on it as an adult and formalized it and made it into something useful. Had the idea stayed an idea, or just been handed off to someone else who hadn't the mental capacity to do something with it, it would have remained worthless.
In short, Paul was right. Ideas are worthless. Ideas plus execution can have value.
Why fight it? Got some great ideas but no capacity to execute? Just accept it and start executing.
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, think back to the idea Einstein had when he was a 14 year old kid. "if I can ride a motorcycle as fast as a beam of light..." was it worthless?
Yes, it was, until he executed on it as an adult and formalized it and made it into something useful. Had the idea stayed an idea, or just been handed off to someone else who hadn't the mental capacity to do something with it, it would have remained worthless. In short, Paul was right. Ideas are worthless. Ideas plus execution can have value. Why fight it? Got some great ideas but no capacity to execute? Just accept…
from my blog post: "An idea is a seed; many ideas have to be discovered and implemented along the way for it to grow up. The initial fertilisation is essential, but differentiation into organs, the "other ideas along the way" must come along."
this was the seed. even after differentiation into organs - as the Theory of Relativity, it was still an idea on paper. You cannot reasonably argue that it was worthless. Other people executed it.
Re: Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, think back to the idea Einstein had when he was a 14 year old kid. "if I can ride a motorcycle as fast as a beam of light..." was it worthless?
Yes, it was, until he executed on it as an adult and formalized it and made it into something useful. Had the idea stayed an idea, or just been handed off to someone else who hadn't the mental capacity to do something with it, it would have remained worthless. In short, Paul was right. Ideas are worthless. Ideas plus execution can have value. Why fight it? Got some great ideas but no capacity to execute? Just accept…
If something is worthless because people will not give you money for it ("make something people want"), then there is nothing inherent in ideas that makes them worthless.
It is simply the fact that most people would not pay you for ideas that make them generally not a profitable endeavor.