> As I pointed out before, there are no new ideas. Everything of value has been done before in one form or another. Let's see: Take idea some X and the set A

> As I pointed out before, there are no new ideas. Everything of value has been done before in one form or another. Let's see: Take idea some X and the set A of all efforts for idea X. Then take the effort in set A that was earliest in time (probability of exact ties 0). Call that effort T. Then when T was done, idea X was a "new idea" and not "done before" in contradiction to the quote. For there being "no new ideas", the research libraries are stuffed with journals of peer-reviewed original research, and the usual standards for publication are "new, correct, and significant". So, those libraries are stuffed with "new ideas" that the quote says don't exist. Are there new ideas in business? Sure: The transistor, the integrated circuit, the Multics processor architecture (heavily borrowed since), security via capabilities, access control lists, and authentication, the microprocessor, RSA encryption, speculative execution, out of order execution, penicillin, cardiac stents, and on and on. 'Nuff.