You know, I used to agree with this statement: "Ideas are overrated." Until I came up with an idea that was not. There are some ideas that are so complex - but

You know, I used to agree with this statement: "Ideas are overrated." Until I came up with an idea that was not. There are some ideas that are so complex - but then they are so simple - that it's hard for me to see other people coming up with that exact idea in that way. Once it's done, then it becomes obvious - but that's not necessarily true before the fact. For instance, Google's PageRank is so obviously the best way to rank links (based on the number of incoming links) - but who woulda thunk before they did it? In fact, when they were just starting out, many of the search players thought it was a dumb idea...which goes to show that they under appreciated the novelty of the idea.