Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
The bottom line is in heaven!
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.