The present is the past biting into the future.
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.