"What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea -- to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain -- plow had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find the way to make the lightnings carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea. To do something, say something, see something, before any body else -- these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial."
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Cool quote. I really dig Mark Twain.
Posted by: inventionaddict | 18 June 2009 at 04:30 PM
mmm hmm. What a great quote. There's also an innovation challenge in there...how many people stop pursuing great ideas because they find out the idea was unoriginal, even when the supposed originator is underfunded or underexecuting?
Posted by: Dave B | 18 June 2009 at 08:59 PM
Good point, Dave B.
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