From before Copernicus to the present, change in the way we see the world has never occurred by getting the people in charge to say, "Gee, sorry—I guess we've been wrong all our lives." Change is accomplished by the non-professionals, the young, the people who are not as professionally committed to maintaining the status quo as the "experts" are.
—Dr. Rick Boettger, The Deficit Lie
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900 - 1973) US computer scientist; designed early digital computer the "Mark I."
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Posted by: Fat Man | 13 April 2008 at 22:04