The value of ideas
apsurd: The problem is ideas do not exist. It is only when they morph into a tangible reality that they can be tested, verified, iterated on, and developed.Put another way, an idea can be as great and fantastic and beautiful and groundbreaking as you dream it up to be - but none of that matters if it exists in your head only. Only when the idea enters a tangible reality can you really verify these claims. Does it work? how the hell do you know if it does not exist?PageRank was verified to be a good idea only after they built a tangible search engine to test it with. And I'd argue their initial idea was iterated upon so much through the course of these real-life tests, that you can no longer give overwhelming credit to some spark of genius that bolted into sergey's head one fine day. It's about testing and iteration in real life not about mystical ideas seemingly sent down from the stars - that to me is why ideas are worthless.