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I looked at the submission title and I knew a comment like this would be here. I guess I'm spending too much time on HN, it's getting predictable. Anyway, in
by yongjik 7y ago
I looked at the submission title and I knew a comment like this would be here. I guess I'm spending too much time on HN, it's getting predictable.
Anyway, in the immortal words of Carl Sagan:
> 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.
- the_af 7y agoAgreed. In other words, it's true there are some famous cases of eccentric people who at first were laughed at but later turned out to be right. From this one absolutely cannot conclude eccentrics are often right. In fact, they are most often wrong.