Ideas are both valuable, as in they allow society to advance, and worthless, as it’s almost always the execution that matters. Also: “He who receives an idea f

Ideas are both valuable, as in they allow society to advance, and worthless, as it’s almost always the execution that matters. Also: “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1813 (https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12...)