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"Hugh looked at me with an almost earnest stare. “What would happen if we mixed Irish whiskey and cream?” he said. “That might be interesting.” He sat back and
by fcbrooklyn 9y ago
"Hugh looked at me with an almost earnest stare. “What would happen if we mixed Irish whiskey and cream?” he said. “That might be interesting.” He sat back and waited for a response.
“Let’s try it,” I replied. Where Hugh was more likely to intellectualise and think through the appalling consequences of dropping cream into Ireland’s beloved whiskey, I was all for doing it there and then."
Now, I ain't no lawyer, but to me this sounds like Hugh invented it, no?
- vermilingua 9y agoHe may have had the original idea, but Macpherson refined it into the specific formula that became Bailey's. There is a distinction to be made.
- ProAm 9y ago"Idea's are worth a nickel, execution is worth..."
- 0xbear 9y agoThat’s what people who never have any decent ideas like to say to those who do.
- OJFord 9y agoIt's also what I tell myself to excuse never acting on any ideas.
- jacobush 9y agoHear you load and clear. Cheers
- ProAm 9y agoIve never seen anyone make a dollar off an idea. Its always execution
- na85 9y agoYou've never seen successful patent suits?
- ProAm 9y agoThose are only successful after someone else performs the execution.
- 0xbear 9y agoI’ve seen plenty of people lose hundreds of millions because their ideas were garbage.
- ProAm 9y agoThey lost millions trying to execute on a bad idea, the idea is still worth a nickel.
- 0xbear 9y agoThe idea in those cases was worth a negative hundred million dollars.
- ProAm 9y agoDoesn't change the fact the idea itself is worthless, if no one acted on the idea they wouldn't have lost any money. Just as if the idea is brilliant, it's the execution that makes the money. It's quite possible bad execution ruins a good idea as well.
- 0xbear 9y agoWhat you’re saying is that without good execution ideas are worthless. What I’m saying is without good ideas execution is worthless. Often good ideas are not really this momentary and ephemeral thing. They’re a culmination of significant insight and experience. Kind of like that old engineer who charged a company “$4995 for knowing where to tap”. Overnight success takes decades of work.
- nikdaheratik 9y agoI think if it was something patentable, they'd have both been listed as inventors. And the same goes for other achievements, like the Nobel Prize which can have three shared winners in a year, but no one says "I won 1/3 of a Nobel Prize"