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Hm, can you name one idea, where the idea was so strong that the execution didn't really matter?

• danieltillett 13y ago
  Yep :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Commun...
  • wellboy 13y ago
    Mhmmm, but you can't really call that an idea anymore. Then you could also count Einstein's theory of relativity as an idea, since with these two the execution is basically proving things mathematically, no? An idea as it is debated here is more like a paragraph describing the idea.
    • danieltillett 13y ago
      These are certainly great ideas that have value outside of any implimentation. A simpler pure idea of great value would be something like the Kelly Criterion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
• pcrh 13y ago
  Every original scientific finding ever started with an idea.
• 7952 13y ago
  To be fair it is possible to patent an idea and make money from it without a brilliant implementation. Compression algorithms are an example where the spec does not need to define the best compression algorithm, merely how to decompress.
• bruceb 13y ago
  Can you name a bad idea where good execution made it successful?
  • angersock 13y ago
    PHP, Perl, and Javascript. And they didn't even need good execution--the time had simply come.