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> My family and friends said i was stupid, utopist, being conned, wasting my time, and so lany things. ... All great things start like that. "But the fact that
by SideburnsOfDoom 8y ago
> My family and friends said i was stupid, utopist, being conned, wasting my time, and so lany things. ... All great things start like that.
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
-- Carl Sagan
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/carl_sagan_163043 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/carl_sagan_163043
- paulgb 8y ago“First they think you're crazy, then they fight you, then you change the world.” - Elizabeth Holmes
- mandeepj 8y agoI don't think she is the original author of this quote. Going to share another quote, which I think is relative here - “Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.” - Steve Jobs
- WilliamEdward 8y agoI feel like the "usually" is pretty important here.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoShe's not, that's the punchline!
- ithkuil 8y agoSadly those you think are too crazy to change the world, usually are
- saalweachter 8y agos/Sadly/Thankfully/
- Fnoord 8y agoThe irony is that she was a Steve Jobs fangirl, or copycat if you will.
- dsr_ 8y agoIf Jobs had been just a little less crazy, he might still be changing the world.
- nkkollaw 8y agoDid he actually write that piece of the commercial? Or any Apple commercial becomes a Steve Jobs quote.
- jcranmer 8y agoElizabeth Holmes, who is currently on trial for fraud charges for covering up the fact that her magic blood testing machine was too magic to work in the real world.
- enraged_camel 8y agoI think that was the joke (although admittedly sometimes you can’t tell on HN).
- paulgb 8y agoI can confirm that that was the joke :)
- rohan1024 8y agoIt's not exactly same but the quote credit goes to https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mahatma_gandhi_103630 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mahatma_gandhi_103630
- pault 8y agoThat's the joke.
- sametmax 8y agoWe were talking about being genuine, and here you come implying I brag that I was smart. That's really rude.
- jessaustin 8y agoYou're rich now, so you have to get used to this.
- bhaak 8y agoBut they were right to laugh at Columbus. He was right for the wrong reasons. Of course, if you don't ever try it, you can never be right for any reasons. Bitcoin is IMO likely somewhere in between. It kickstarted a new concept in IT but money is a really simple (although powerful) usecase. I'm more interested what will be done with the concept in the future.
- pygy_ 8y ago> But they were right to laugh at Columbus. He was right for the wrong reasons. He wasn't even right. He was wrong in his estimation of the earth circumference, and lucky that America was there between both oceans...
- ttoinou 8y agoHe didn't say he was a genius. He seemed to imply he's the one laughing at people with all his well-earned money now :)
- puranjay 8y agoIt's a little ingenuous to use the word 'genius' for people who put gas money into a meme currency 9 years ago