- Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits
- A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others
- The presence of others can only inhibit this process, since creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones, which you naturally do not care to display
Read more in Technology Review. Thanks, +John Chao
