23 March 2007#53 works for meA Michael Iva manifesto: 100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down. [Link to PDF file.] I liked this bit:
Creativity is a lot like gunpowder. It is comprised of benign elements that do nothing, until they are combined.
And this, an update of Schopenhauer:
A great concept passes through three stages when it is new: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
(Via Church Marketing Sucks.) Posted at 1:11 PM to Almost YogurtThat Schopenhauer guy knew whereof he spoke. Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 9:58 AM on 24 March 2007 |