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>First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Me thinks we are now at the "they laugh at you" stage. “But the fact that so
by LiquidSky 4y ago
>First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Me thinks we are now at the "they laugh at you" stage.
“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, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science.
- college_physics 4y agoIts highly unlikely that Carl Sagan would think of the visionaries behind the fediverse as clowns but I can accept there are diverse value systems out there.