Bill Zimmerly (billz at inlink.com) wrote:
> F. Frank LeFever <flefever at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:7luf9v$a8h at dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com...
> > One often hears this basic argument (especially in the internet
> > newsgroups): Some great ideas were initially rejected. This idea is
> > rejected. Therefore this is a great idea.
> The world is full of evidence to the contrary, the Xerox Parc example that I
> provided being but one. Do you need more? Here are the documented opinions
> of other men such as yourself. Brilliant and educated men who were proven to
> be simply wrong in their pronouncements of pursuits that are of no value...
Sure. But for every person that had a good idea that was dismissed by someone
else, there's thousands who had bad ideas that were dismissed by someone else.
The fact that some good ideas were dismissed as rubbish does not mean every
idea that's dismissed as rubbish is a good one, far from it. It's the same
as when some college drop-out says "Ah but Bill Gates was a college drop-out".
The fact that one college drop-out made it big time does not mean that merely
being a college drop-out means you're going to make it big time. For every
college drop-out that's Bill Gates or even something moderately successful,
there's dozens that are nobodies.
Matthew Huntbach
