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177 Post author: lukeprog 05 January 2011 07:22AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 January 2011 11:31:51PM *  6 points [-]
  1. Almost no ideas are good
  2. Almost no ideas are new

This counts as vast insight. When looking at the output of lots of ridiculously smart people, you discover that most intelligence is used to justify stupidity, and the most important thing about most new ideas is that they are wrong.